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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 45697" data-attributes="member: 509">Act 6 - Once upon a Time in Harrgard In his cell in the City Guard lockup Scarran is playing poker with his cellmate, a big thuggish orc named Krunch. He's not doing all that well.He takes a good look at his hand: the Jack of spades, the two of hearts and then the eights of hearts, diamonds and clubs. He lays his cards on the table. "Three of a kind, beat that."The orc grins sadistically and reveals his hand: "A pair of queens, I win!""No you don't! Three of a kind is higher than a pair.""No it isn't.""Yes it is, that's the whole point of a three of a kind, a pair is the lowest hand.""Yeah, but yer hand is three eights. Eight plus eight plus eight is twenty four. Two queens makes twelve plus twelve which is also twenty four." Krunch looks as he's gonna explode from pride over his mathematical knowledge. "We both have twenty four points.""Eh? So?""I got twenty four with fewer cards, I've got only two while you have three.""That doesn't matter, my hand is still higher.""I say no. I win.""What exactly makes you the referee?!"The orc stands up, he's so big he has to bend his head so he won't hit it into the roof: "You gnome, I orc. You small, I big.""Point taken. You win." Scarran throws away the cards onto the table and sighs while the orc greedily grabs his prize, a small candybar Scarran had pinched from one of the guards. "Enjoy it." Krunch already has and burps joyishly..A guard opens the cell door: "Let's go gnome, there's someone here to see you."Scarran follows the guard to small round room with only one tiny little window, sunshine flowing in. In the middle of the room there's a small table and two chairs. In one of the chair a tall hooded man sits. The guard pushes him inside: "You've got two minutes."After making some rude remarks at the guard, the gnome sits down opposite the hooded figure. "What are you doing here, why are you still in Merchant Guild territory? It is said you fled over the border to the Dracani Dynasty.""Do not worry, with my kinda allies even Carp can't touch me. Come, let's go.""Go? Are you crazy? We can't just walk out.""Can't we?""Of course not, we're on the third floor here." He falls silent for a minute as Grunt grins a snake's smile. "What are you up to Grunt?"The guard comes back in: "C'mon gnome, your two minutes are up."From under his hood Grunt howls: "Duck, fast." He jumps under the table dragging Scarran with him while he throws a grenade in the direction of the window. In blue thunderstone flames debris rains into the room. The blast forms a big hole in the wall where the window used to be. Grunt grabs Scarran under one arm and jumps out.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The players are examining the hole in the wall when Sergeant Carp arrives. "It's certainly... big." Stickler utters.Sergeant Carp examines the whole scene for quite some time and seems uneasy. "Why would Grunt go to all this trouble to save a mere servant. It doesn't sound like the Grunt I know.""Maybe they were friends?" Incognito speculates.Stickler grins. "Maybe they were more than friends."While the players share a laugh, Carp asks himself: "There must have been something Grunt needed from him, but what?" He turns to the players. "Boys, try to find out as much as you can about this Scarran. Try asking Hadricht at the Weed, he knows nearly every Gnome in the cipposite thet every gnome over in Smalltown."</blockquote>

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