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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PhoenixAsh" data-source="post: 2300005" data-attributes="member: 18230">Update #23: A Battery of Bad Bluff ChecksWell, I had hoped to get another full update done before I leave on vacation tomorrow morning, but thanks to a plumbing mishap in my kitchen, I don't think its going to happen.  I won't leave you completely high and dry (pardon the pun), so here is a small prelude to the next update.Haiiro and Jeremy_dnd thank you for the kind words, feedback is always wonderful.  As Pflume says, it only gets better... at least our games do.  I'll be doing my best to portray them well.My next update won't be until after June 18th when I'm back from California.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> ***“Somebody help me get out of this armor!” Alexandre roars as he runs into the map room, struggling to shrug off his heavy chainmail.Dox scampers in behind him, panting, “More guards are coming!”  Audric quickly moves over to help Alexandre out of his borrowed chainmail, while Elisa and Loki ready their weapons.  Loki moves over to the northern entrance of the room, sliding back against the white wolf statue.“Try and get them to come through here Dox,” Loki nods to the passage before him.“Er, right!  I’ll try… if I can’t convince them to go away.”  The changling steps through the doorway, taking a deep breath.  Behind him Ruel grumbles darkly as he retakes his feet, breaking off his meditation.Approaching the doorway outside the map room, two of the Emerald Claw soldiers look at Dox closely, “Where are the miners?”He tries to lie smoothly, “Somebody, er… grabbed ‘em for another purpose.”“Garret didn’t say nothing about them being moved,” the soldier replies, his face darkening, “Nicholas, are you getting them to do your work again?”Dox grins, “Yeah… you caught me!”The soldier grins slowly, clearing his throat, “Well, I should probably tell Garret.  Unless you can give me a good reason not to, of course.”While Dox fumbles in his coin pouch, the other soldier nudges his companion, nodding to a noticeable bloodstain on the glass-encrusted surface.  His partner shoots a suspicious look at Dox, “Hey, what happened here?”“There was a little accident…” Dox begins.The soldiers draw their flails.“Oh hey, there’s something strange in here!” Dox hastily interjects, retreating swiftly into the map room.As Dox backs into the map room, whispering, “It’s me, it’s me, it’s me…” as loud as he dares, Loki raises his greataxe.  The first Emerald Claw soldier doesn’t see the half-giant until his axe is arching down…</blockquote>

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