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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hewligan" data-source="post: 4982451" data-attributes="member: 19688">The first week in the city of Magnimar passes well. New-found wealth and new-found friends ... a welcome mix.Several of the noblemen on the list that you retrieved from Xanesha make contact with you through various channels, and you are invited to several very fine meals, one trip to the opera, and receive a very generous donation to Danth's orphanage from another. There is an element, you feel, of these noblemen of enjoying being able to connect with local heroes, although none seem to know why they are on the list or really want to dwell upon it too much. Instead they prefer to show you off and thank you in their own way. It may be superficial, and it may be fleeting, but the food is always excellent, the company gracious, and the women fragrant.In that same week, there is much fitting of armour, and visits to organise the purchase and sale of various magical items. Some pieces are ordered from Korvosa, some from even further afield (Cheliax), but they will all be here within a few months, and deposits are paid to secure them.Within the city, word of your deeds spread quickly. Within the Shadow, the poorest district of the city, and the place you dwell, you become proper heroes. Kids seem to follow you everywhere, old ladies come from their doors and hand you scones, or shake your hands in their liver spotted hand, or even plant kisses upon your cheeks. They have long lived in fear of the murders, and also of the repercussions of the murders (midnight sweeps by the city guard, random arrests, threats, and so on). For a part of the city that depends upon the more illicit paths to earning a coin, the reduced guard presence is welcome, and life appears to be quickly returning to normal.'The Wolves of Sandpoint' quickly capture the city's imagination. Jokad, with his striking Shoanti looks, is perhaps the most visible and celebrated of the heroes, but you all feel the friendliness of the city towards you. People ask questions. It is impossible to pay for a drink anywhere. Everyone wants to ask about Ironbriar (for word of his involvement quickly leaked, as did work of the pumpkin giant, and the snake lady in the tower). Soon the story is embellished, and the things you faced are demons and horrors of the nine hells, but behind it all is a relief that the city is finally no longer gripped by a crippling fear as night after night the murderers strike.There are some recriminations. You hear, once of twice, of rumours of Ironbriar being found, or of one of the remaining cultists being tracked down and beated (or killed). Most of this is just ill-founded rumour, but you don't doubt that at least one or two people have used this as an opportunity to frame and then remove their rivals. Such is life in a city!</blockquote>

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