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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Halford" data-source="post: 4513879" data-attributes="member: 64844">Leesha soon has mugs of ale delivered to all of the party members and introduces thm to the bartender, Annette. "You folks got business with Fat Sal?  He's looking your way a lot, not generally a good sign."  Annette says, carefully turning to face away from Sal's table.  "Watch what you say by the way, the one that look slike his mother was a stoat can read lips." Turning to Sarn and Reis and apparently unconcerned about this being "overheard" Annette speaks to Reis and Sarn. "You boys are mercenaries right?  So you must be pretty strong we have a wood chopping competition later, and a darts match, everyone puts in a gold piece or more sometimes and the Tail puts in ten for all the firewood we get out of it - first to split one hundred wins.  Darts is darts, but the pots usually pretty decent.  Let me know if you are interested and I'll sign you up." Leesha begins to tell Ciprinus about her ranch, of which she is clearly much enamoured, explaining that she usually spends her weekends there. Perkiss sips quietly at his drink until a richly dressed elderly woman enters with two younger women flanking her and takes a stool next to him.  At which point looking extremely uncomfortable he offers a begrudging greeting. "Lady Blackhope." He then stands and approaches Sarn, "So, going to chop some wood?  You'd probably have a decent crack at it, strange tradition, but its part of the places charm I suppose." Lady Blackhope's small party order wine from Annette and remain at the bar looking curiously out of place in their obviously fine, though relatively understated clothing.  The Lady herself could not be called beautiful, but handsome might not be inappropriate, regal might be more so. Midias and Sarn both catch Lady Blackhope, peering discretely over one of her companions shoulders at Perkiss, her face blank and inscrutable.</blockquote>

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