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Felsi comments no further, but winks slyly at Vandalin as she leaves to go check on the stew.Never one to pass up an opportunity to flirt, Vandalin flashes his best smile makes a bow from his seat. "Indeed, I would not mistreat a woman, especially one so worthy and lovely as you. I hope you'll assure Miss Kaijitsu that my intentions are honorable should she catch me mooning over you."
A slightly disheartened look falls upon the owner's face as she hears Vandalin's last words. "I'll make arrangements for a private room so long as your coin is good. As for the 'Late Unpleasantness,' let's just say it was a dark chapter in this town's past and I'd prefer not to discuss it further.""Vandlin", offering up his name to the mistress of the tavern. "I would like to seek a private room for a week at least. I gather from the way you handled that lout the 'late troubles' do not reach so far as this hall?" He lets his words hand in the air an opportunity for her to comment on the troubles open.
As you had heard, this woman seems no exception to the tale that folks in Sandpoint don't like to talk about the Late Unpleasantness, but perhaps with some honeyed words, she might be persuaded to give you more of the details.
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"Some of the people whisper that the burning of the old Sandpoint Chapel was no accident. Father Ezakien had adopted his daughter Nualia, and some said after the burning that it was a bad omen, that the girl was cursed in some way. Personally, I always thought she was quite a beautiful child, almost unearthly in fact, and to be honest, I was a little bit jealous. Other children of the town weren't always so nice to her. And the more superstitious folk thought she had been blessed by Desna with kind of reverse deformity. I think the girl was terrorized after a fashion. Rumors spread that her touch or proximity could cure warts and rashes, that locks of her hair brewed into tea could increase fertility, and that her voice could drive out evil spirits. It led to a succession of awkward and humiliating requests over the years. I enjoy attention, but I certainly wouldn't want people fawning over me quite like that. I think she was troubled as a result. But after the fire, some people started to say more than that. They suggested she had caused the fire, that she was actually an abomination to the gods, that her short life was a blessing upon this town which was abused and that the gods had taken her away and burned the chapel as punishment. I'm not all that religious, nor do I think the gods act in so obvious a fashion. But there are a fair number of people in this town who do."[/sblock][/sblock]
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