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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 689020" data-attributes="member: 1210">Return to Pesh CityOur heroes regroup.  "We need to go back to town," Angelfire says flatly.  "I need a new falchion."  Though Lester tries to convince him to soldier on with the Airsword, he refuses.  "If Alcar comes back I need to be at my best," he says.  "I need the weapon I'm trained in.  If you don't want to go back to town, that's fine- but I'm going."After a few moments' debate, the party decides to stick together.  They go to retrieve what arrows they can and loot the fallen- and they find that Thuurgen has vanished."Uh-oh," says Horbin."That's right, he was regenerating and we left him where we fell!" Lester exclaims.  "Whoops.  Well, hopefully we won't meet him again.""And if we're really lucky maybe he'll go and kill Alcar for us," Angelfire adds with a cruel smile.  Horbin frowns; Alcar is a celestial of Galador, after all- albeit one who is never too high in the graces of the Light.Orbius teleports back to Pesh City, then contacts the L via his trump.  The rest of the group all touches him and they pass together through a rainbow of light and to the Eye's location.  The group sells loot and buys new equipment (such as a pair of falchions for Angelfire, one of which is magical).  Some of the group visits Souliass, Zeebo's lover and attorney, and to their surprise they find that they are being sued by the heirs of Cluma, the guardian of order who attacked Zeebo in the Gorel Tree restaurant.  "Screw them!" Lester yells.  "I want to hire you to sountersue.  Talk to the priests of Na'Rat- they'll tell you, that Cluma guy was bad news.  He'd already attacked their temple and broke their obelisk, and he was the one who attacked us!""I know, I was there, remember?" she replies calmly.  "But under Peshan law, they have a case.  They're suing for Cluma's sword, Law-Tablet, too.  Do you still have it?  It might be a good bargaining chip."Felix Optima Maxima snorts quietly in her sheath.  "No," says Lester.Privately, she tells Zeebo that he's being sued for paternity by not one but two gnome lasses.  He's surprised, but hardly shocked; since being blessed by Chaos he's been enormously fertile, and it was only a matter of time before it happened.  The pressure builds and must be relieved.  He arranges to meet with them and he meets his two 2-year-old daughters, Hailey and Klaira.  The mothers- Leanne and Klaira (who named her daughter after herself, obviously)- are mollified once the Mayor sets up trust funds for each of the children, and Klaira gives him doe-eyes, obviously still hoping to win his affection.  Souliass, on the other hand, is quite plainly pissed at Zeebo and gives him the cold shoulder.As some of our heroes head towards a scroll shop that Souliass directed them too, Grumpy is stopped by a weasely-looking half-orc.  "'Scuse me," he says.  "Yer a tabaxi, aren't you?""Why, yes," Grumpy Fluffbottom answers. The half-orc licks his lips.  "Hey, would you be interested in making some money?""Uh- how so?"  "Well, I have some associates who'd be willing to pay you for your time.""To do what?" "Oh, they'd just want to meetcha," the half-orc says casually.  "I'm sure they'd make it worth your while."  He smiles a yellow-toothed smile.  Orbius, meanwhile, has wandered a little farther into the crowd and is casting detect thoughts.  What he learns shocks him.  The half-orc introduces himself as Dapthos and explains that Grumpy would have to sail to Valonia to meet with them.  Orbius tips the tabaxi off that something's not quite right, so he agrees to meet the half-orc again the next day at a dockside fish fry.  After the party reaches a tavern, the Eye tells Grumpy that Dapthos wants him to sell himself into slavery for a ring of Valonian orcish 'furry-lovers'- a twisted cult of sexual perversion!  The group debates what to do about it- leave them alone, kill them, turn them into the authorities- "Screw that, they want to make me their bitch!" says Grumpy- and in the end they decide to let things play out, try to take him alive and turn him in, but not worry too much about it.  If the slavers die, so be it."We need to try to find out about those books, too," Sheva says, and Orbius agrees to see what he can do.  Then Angelfire hears the voice of an old associate, Estelias, a grey elven enchantress from his homeland of Tirchond.  It's a sending from home, and it's not good news.  "Angel, your father is gone.  I don't know if he's been kidnapped or left on his own.  I have a ranger out looking for him."Angelfire sits in silence for a moment.  His father is Nigel, an alienist that a different group of adventurers (although some of the members- him, Sheva, Zeebo, Sybele- are the same) freed from bondage in Firestorm Peak.  Nigel was driven completely mad by his experiences; he had been convalescing in the temple in the Shining City for the last five years, going outside a few times a day.  He seemed to be finding peace at last, and he hadn't cast a spell or summoned a strange creature since they took him from Firestorm Peak almost six years ago.Angelfire shrugs to himself.  He isn't the same person that was Nigel's daughter, not really; and his father's so far gone that he's not the same man Angelfire knew as a child.  He decides to worry about it when he has some time.  There's a lot already on the plate, after all.  Angelfire will say nothing about Nigel's disappearance for now.In the morning the group sets out to snare the slaver, and Orbius tells them that he'll try to figure out what the books do as well."First thing's first," says the L, and Grumpy polymorphs him into a female tabaxi.The party turns invisible and heads out for the fish fry....Next Time: Snaring a slaver, all kinds of divinations, and the event that makes Angelfire mention Nigel's disappearance!</blockquote>

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