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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tuerny" data-source="post: 83382" data-attributes="member: 674">Session 2, Part 1Dirigo (Summer Tide) 2, EveningA rain falls over the city as Avalon, Vanya, Gideon, Demetrius, and Blackscale look for cover from the rain. A light they saw moments ago appears to be merely coming from some unadorned building, probably a set of plebian apartments. Fortunately, Demetrius is able to spot a sign in the distance. The miserable group hurries over to it, discovering it points to a location known as the Inn of the Dancing Manticore. Within the place they found the warmth they sought.The inhabitants of the inn seemed somewhat shocked to see such a bizarre group entering. The serving lass even went so far as to drop her serving tray and scream at the sight of the lizard man. He growled at her and she fled into the back of the inn somewhere. Demetrius wandered over to the bar and saw the barkeeper giving some whispered instruction to a boy. When he saw Demetrius coming, he waved the boy off, and turned to smile at Demetrius, asking him for what he would like to drink. Demetrius asked for a mug of ale and asked him what city this was. The barkeeper seemed slightly confused but related that they were in the city of Pimiris. Demetrius thanks him and starts quaffing down his ale. The others, save for Gideon, had wandered over to a shadowed corner of the inn, sitting at the table. Gideon instead took a moment to survey the room, noting who was within it. One table had a group of local merchants and traders who appeared to be discussing the day’s business. A second had a group of well-armed Altherian (1) travelers, who appeared to be looking upon the lizard man with some suspicion. At the last table was a lone swordsman dressed in banded mail, with a great sword on his back and elaborate serpent tattoos on his arms. With that completed he wandered over to the table and sat down.Blackscale made some comments about being hungry so Vanya walked over to the bar and purchased some food for the both of them. Blackscale pulled out his great axe, resulting in the Altherians drawing their weapons, the lone swordsman drawing his sword, and the merchants abruptly getting up and leaving the room. Blackscale ignored them and began to polish and clean his axe before putting his weapon back a few minutes later. The swordsman followed suit but the Altherians decided to leave their weapons out. In the mean time Gideon had gotten tired of waiting for a barmaid to come over to the table and went over to talk to the innkeeper. This resulted in them getting into a short argument, as Gideon insisted that he get a discount from his drink because he was forced to come over to the bar rather than get served at his table. The bartender insisted that Blackscale scaring his serving girl was the cause and that the inn owed him nothing, and that if he did not like it he could take his business elsewhere.Their argument came to an end, however, as the sound of measured, synchronous footsteps indicated the presence of a group of Legionaries. The Legionaries were accompanied by the boy who pointed out the lizard man before fleeing behind the bar with the innkeeper, who had taken this opportunity to hard beneath it. Blackscale stood and began twirling his weapon around declaring his refusal to be arrested. One of the Legionaries demanded that the fiendish-looking Demetrius surrender to their arrest as well. He insisted he had done nothing, but agreed to come in for questioning. The Legionaries demanded Blackscale drop his weapon several more times before one of them ordered the others to take him down. Three Legionaries drew out javelins as the leader charged at Blackscale. Many of the other legionaries slowly followed, circling around and scoring a light wound on the lizard man with their gladiuses. The man with the serpent tattoos choose to join the battle on the side of the legionaries and moved forward to engage Blackscale. Demetrius moved over and began to curse at and threaten some of the Legionaries in the back. One was intimidate by him while another aimed his javelin upon him and told him to drop his weapon and get on the ground. Blackscale was able to work himself into a rage before he scored a blow on the legionary leader with his axe; unfortunately the legionary’s armor was able to absorb most of the blow and his tail missed. Gideon, Avalon, and Vanya chose not to act.Avalon decided she had had enough of this and launched a sleep spell at the mass of legionaries in front of Blackscale. Only two of them fell before it. The serpent-tattooed man was able to score a telling blow onto Blackscale, almost causing him to fall The legionaries continued to whittle away at Blackscale, while Blackscale was able to strike back at the serpent-tattooed man, scoring a blow with his tail while his axe was blocked by the big man’s sword. Demetrius decided to ignore the legionary’s command and quickly moved over to the other side of the legionary’s so he would no be in his line of sight. Vanya chose to do what she could to end the battle, and attempted to his a nearby legionary with the flat of her blade. She failed. Blackscale was looking very worn so Gideon finally decided to intervene, moving forward to cast a light healing spell upon him. One of the legionaries took this to be a hostile action and drove his gladius into Gideon, wounding him gravely but not knocking him out. Avalon unleashed a spell upon the serpent-tattooed man causing acid to erupt in his eyes, causing him pain and blindness. He stumbled back, trying to escape from the inn, but ended up landing on the Altherian’s table instead. A legionary and Gideon exchanged blows, but Gideon got the worse of it: he was knocked out. Blackscale fell almost immediately afterwards. Demetrius decided to take advantage of the legionary who was fighting Gideon’s wounds to drive his rapier into him, causing him to fall.  Vanya once again tried to strike at her legionary opponent but her long sword bounced off his shield. The remaining Legionaries began to move towards those who remained standing while Demetrius and Vanya double-teamed the Legionary that Vanya has steadily been trying to take down, knocking him out. Avalon used her wand of magic missiles to knock out the legionary’s leader. The two legaionaries that remained decided to think better of the battle, having both been intimidated by Demetrius earlier in the battle, and rather not facing him. At this point the serpent-tattooed man regained his vision and decided that discretion was the better part of valor, fleeing out of the building. Vanya, called upon her bardic spell-songs to heal Blackscale, bringing him back to consciousness and healing Gideon to stop his bleeding. Demetrius killed one of the sleeping Legionaries and was moving over to the other one when the Altherians pointed his bow at Demetrius and recommended he leave right now. Demetrius decided to heed his advice and, as a group, they ran out into the storm..(9) Altheria is the lone republic in Arcanis, situated on a plateau at the southeastern edge of the Coryan Empire. The Altherians are the dark-skinned (black), chosen people of Althares, god of scholarship and invention. They are engaged in an endless war with the serpent men that live in the huge morass that lies below the plateau. The major troops of the lizard men are troglodytes with lizard men officers.</blockquote>

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