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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 4245479" data-attributes="member: 4936">"Greetings mortals and immortals, all you silent watchers and listeners that pass unheeded, unremarked, and unknown. Do not be alarmed. I am no ghost, no vengeful shade come to wring my eternal angst out of your body and soul. I've a body, though a subtle one and tiny compared to you folk. I've a mind, though simple. And as you can hear, I've a voice, though soft and piping as the wind through reeds and seeming as just a kiss of breeze to any save those I wish to hear it. I have seen much and I'd tell you now, because it is what we do and the tale is grand in the telling. I've long sat on the shoulder of a giant...well, a giant to me anyway, though she is short in stature to most, it seems. And as I see without eyes, only I can tell much of what she does, for like her kin she moves between rays of light, unseen by mortal eyes save when she chooses to be.""I speak of course of the Tatterdemalion, and she is here though none here know it. Look up. You see there, how the great stuffed boar's head on the wall moves slightly to and fro? She is seated upon it in her torn tunic made by clever hands to seem like spring oak leaves, with her crimson hair streaming back from her head as if it were flame and her wide jade eyes behind a golden mummer's mask aglow with merriment at the madness; the chaos. Though she would stand even with a child of Men, she is no child. She is of the old folk, the fey, and though her kind have faded to spirits of wood and glade and lake, she has fought and learned and fought again; holding the avalanche of years at bay. She is the defender of her kind and all they hold dear; and when the need arises, the avenger.""She was already enjoying the raucousness of the tavern, and seemed as if she might even descend from her taxidermed perch when a table flew across the room! Even the Tatterdemalion was startled, and I heard her blurt an eager giggle as she anticipated the room exploding into a brawl. But it was not to be! With one hand, the target of the table not only stopped it, but held it! It is a rare thing to see the Tatterdemalion look on something with surprise...she has lived long, and seen things few mortals can dream of...but now she is surprised. Surprised and delighted, for anything new is a joy to one immortal. Delighted and revolted, for the rare man who stopped the table is ugly; a sight to turn the stomach. Yet, I think, revolted and fascinated, from the gleam in her invisible eyes.""Alone of any in the room, I saw the Tatterdemalion glide up off the boar's head. For a moment she moved too fast even for me to see, as the table sailed easily back through the air; back at the one who'd unwisely thrown it in the first place. But her eyes were on the thrower, not the thrown. What she intended to do on reaching him, I cannot say..."[sblock=Notes]First off, I apologize for the delay. I do not anticipate one like it again. Circumstances offscreen conspired to limit my enworld time significantly until now. I snuck a few short posts in for other games, but this one required much more time and effort.Now, to game!If the spot check is DC 40, Tatter cannot actually fail the check. In addition she has Blindsense, which requires special circumstances to Hide from anyway. <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=":)" /> I'm proceeding under the assumption she's aware of the halfling...but isn't interested in the halfling, because the halfling is just part of the background fun of the tavern in general. Though my voice doesn't know what she's going to do, my intent is to have her introduce herself to this unusually skilled mortal and see what he's about. Hopefully this won't violate the injunction on dialogue, since I think I would like to get to know the other characters at least a LITTLE here at the outset. <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=":)" />Let me know.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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