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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1498376" data-attributes="member: 5675">"Where are we going to find a goat to sacrifice then?" Miles asked, staring at the others."And what right do we have to take its life?" Yvgeny, priest of the God of mercy was already having difficulties with this idea.The old Calimpanni priest again grinned toothlessly at the group, and tapped himself on the chest."You know?" Miles turned on the priest again. "Let me guess. You have a cousin who owns a goat." Miles was adjusting to the way that Calimport worked surprisingly quickly.The old man nodded, grinning."Very well, old man. Send a runner for the goat, and have them meet us in the marketplace". Handing a few more coins to the priest, the group finally turned and left the temple, making their way through the teeming streets until they stood before the archway in the thronging marketplace. They looked at the crowds, which started to gather to see what the entertaining infidels would try to do this time. Then they looked at the market, with stalls selling parchment, and vegetables, and … animals."Oh well. We've already paid for a goat. Might as well wait until it arrives.""We could buy some blood from someone.""You guys, I'm really not happy about all this, you know.""Nonsense. We've spent the money, and we're going to wait for our goat.""So that we can kill it.""Exactly."The sight of infidels bickering served to keep the crowd amused, and the locals became even more curious when, twenty minutes later, a small boy came up to the foreigners, dragging a reluctant, tired, scraggy old goat behind him on a length of tatty rope. He handed the rope to Miles, and then fled back into the crowd to watch.Miles dragged the unfortunate goat to the archway, and then drew his sword, Slayer."Wahey!" The blade cried out as it flew from the scabbard. "Here I am to save the day! What needs killing?""That." Miles pointed the sword at the goat."A Goat?""A Goat.""Is it the dreaded three-headed goat of Yrrb?""Does it look like a three headed goat to you?""Perhaps the fire-breathing goat of -""Look. We're killing the goat, alright?""I am the Slayer of beasts I would remind you. It hardly befits…"But Slayer was suddenly plunged into the poor animal's neck, and blood fountained across the marketplace. Miles held out the carcass like some obscene water-skin. "Quick. Everybody hold out your hands.""I'm not sure that I should be-""Hold your hands out, you effeminate waste of a monk, if you ever want to get home!"Yvgeny cupped his hands and filled them with the blood of the slain goat, and joined the rest of the group in smearing the blood across the sides of the archway, which immediately snapped into silvery light as the portal ignited.Miles, not bothering to clean his hands, rammed them back into his Gauntlets of Ogre Power, and strode through the gateway, with the rest of the group at his heels.{DM's note - it was a good job that Miles finally slew the goat and got on with it. Rand was about to use a telekinesis spell to lift the goat over the archway and just tear it limb from limb. Which wouldn't have been very cool, really…}</blockquote>

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