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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 5668868" data-attributes="member: 12460">The day's travel is long and you have few stops to rest and stretch your legs from riding atop the bumpy carriage. The Grand Highway is well-paved, but that doesn't make it a whole lot more comfortable. During the precious few stops that you do make, no one emerges from the carriage and the curtains remain drawn. The groom takes only enough time to water and feed the horses before you are back up on the carriage and on your way each time.After a difficult day, you arrive around dusk at a roadside tavern. Outside you can see a painted sign with a green leaf and pipe hanging over the door. A young child, a blonde-haired girl with a tawny complexion and bare feet sweeps the steps outside the inn as you approach. The groom removes the reigns from the horses and hitches them to a series of posts outside, as there appears to be no stable.[sblock=Lia]Due to your keen perception, you notice that there did indeed used to be a stable next to the inn. There are a few remnants of corner posts which are consistent with the size of a modest roadside inn's stable. However, something has destroyed it, quite recently you imagine, due to the amount of debris that still remains to be cleared.[/sblock]After you get down and take a moment to stretch your legs, you notice that the carriage opens for the very first time and an elegant woman dressed completely in black exits after a maidservant steps out to place a portable wooden stair beneath the carriage. The woman wears a black shawl over her head, but you can see her skin is a fine ivory color, her lips as red as the evening sun which has just recently set. Even in the low light of the lanterns hanging outside the inn, her beauty is breathtaking. She looks around and huffs, "This is the best we can do? Well, I never..."After considering things for a moment she descends the stair and orders her maidservant to fetch her things. She then enters the inn, snobbishly turning her nose up at the blonde girl who meekly curtsies as she passes.You follow soon after into the inn to find the woman arguing with the goodwife. "This is intolerable! I was told the Oaken Hearth Suite would be available for me when I arrived. Now I'm to find that I am expected to share a room with my servants? This simply won't do. I demand that you make the suite suitable for me immediately.""But Madam," the goodwife protests as politely as possible, "that suite is haunted and cursed. You do not understand what peril you would be placing yourself in were you to stay there. I do apologize but it has been some time since we sent word for the priests of Manas to come and consecrate the area. They will be here in a few days, but there is nothing I can do for you at this time."</blockquote>

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