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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2786477" data-attributes="member: 2020">SOMEHOW Narrin spotted Claire 3,000 feet away in the clearing (I don't know how he did it, but he did it!)  Narrin goes to his bunker, where his squire helps him don his armor.  He strings his bow, readies himself, and sets out.  At some point (I don't know when, and nobody else does either <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) Claire hears someone walking towards her through the forest, armor clanking and brush rustling.  Claire decides NOT to hide.  But she casts Mage Armor and Protection from Arrows on herself while waiting for the stranger to arrive.  She knows that Damara isn't exactly full of kindly strangers.  Then she casts Shocking Grasp and holds it, in case the stranger is hostile and manages to close with her to melee range.  Narrin may or may not hear her casting.  Probably he doesn't.  Narrin saw, from his observatory, a lone girl.  He figures he can deal with a lone girl.  He's taken on and defeated entire groups of treasure hunters.  In any case, he is curious about this girl, and why she is here, alone in the forest.  Narrin walks into the clearing, bow nocked (but he has not taken a Ready action.)  Claire sees this, and raises her hands threateningly.  Narrin gestures threateningly with the bow.  Claire halts, lowers her hands, and asks him to put down the bow.  They are now standing 40 feet part.  Neither is moving now.  Narrin keeps the arrow nocked, but he is not aiming it at Claire.  Narrin demands to know what she is doing here, where she is going, and why she is in Damara in the first place.  And where are her friends, since nobody travels here alone.  Claire informs him that none of this is his business.  She asks him to back off, to move on.  Narrin coldly informs her this is Damara, she is trespassing, he is the authority here, and he has the right to know.  Claire replies that she is looking for a healer, she intends no trespassing, she has people in trouble she is trying to help, and if he will not help her, he should leave her be.  Narrin (who hates the healer she is seeking) states that this is not good enough.  Why did she and her friends enter Damara in the first place?  Were they treasure hunters?  A lot of filthy, disgusting treasure hunters often come to Damara, he says.  Claire and her now wounded friends were here on a treasure hunt.  She offers a plausible explanation for why she and her friends were in Damara (short, and not related to treasure-hunting) but Narrin doesn't buy it.    Narrin informs Claire she will have to come with him to his bunker, and there they can discuss the healer and what to do.  This is not a request, says he, but an order.  Claire refuses.  Narrin gestures threateningly with his bow.  Claire smiles grimly, and tells him to be on his way.  Narrin informs her he will shoot her if she does not obey him.  Claire quietly informs him he will die if he attempts harm against her.  A short, brittle silence occurs ...  Then the combat starts.</blockquote>

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