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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OneCrappy DM" data-source="post: 9818425" data-attributes="member: 7033788">Mr. BlackThe ragpicker tilts his head when you approach, one rheumy eye catching the dim light that leaks between the shuttered hovels of the Hive. His fingers dart out the moment you reveal the morsel, snatching it with a speed that suggests long practice in surviving on scraps. He wolfs it down in two bites, then wipes his mouth with the back of a filthy sleeve. “Right, cutter,” he rasps, settling back on his haunches. “Here’s the chant.” His voice is a gravelly whisper, carrying just enough edge to cut through the din of distant arguments, clattering tin cups, and the present groan of shifting architecture. “In the Hive, keep yer eyes wide and yer face hard. Look soft or clueless, and some addle cove’ll have your jink before you know you’ve lost it. Everyone wants coin here everyone. Even the bashers who say they don’t.”He scratches at a tangle of rags that might once have been a coat. “You see a bubbler totterin’ out’ve a flop house, give ’em room unless you’re keen to get puked on or stabbed, dependin’ on how their night’s gone.” A rickety cart rattles by, pulled by a gaunt pack beast and driven by someone who may not technically be alive. The ragpicker jerks his head toward it. “And if you’re unlucky enough to die here in the gutters? Well.” He gives a wet chuckle. “Maybe you’ll be fortunate enough to have the Dustmen haul your carcass to the Mortuary. They’re always lookin’ for the newly quiet.” He leans closer, breath sour and warm. “Point is, berk: this is Sigil. Don’t look weak, don’t look lost, and don’t look like you got more jink than sense. Do that, and you might just last the night.”[SPOILER="OOC "] Terms & Idioms:Berk: an idiot of foolJink: CoinsChant: News, gossip, infoCutter: Someone who is sharp complimentAddle Coved: IdiotBasher: ThugBubbler: DrunkAnthill: City, town, or the hiveBally: CrazyBought the black diamond: To be ripped offBlitz: Go through a portal quicklyJumping out the Window: Blindly going through a portalFactions:Dustmen: They Clean up the streets of dead bodies and take them to the mortuary believing that they enter True deathBlack Cabal: They don't believe in any true answer to the universe except that everyone should help each other as best they can They have a large place in the hiveSign of the one: They believe they are the center of the multiverse and use people as suchDoom Guard: Police type force trying to stop anyone getting in the way of letting the multiverse dieMercykillers: another guard like force Fraternity of order: Bureaucrats [/SPOILER][SPOILER="Rolls Required"]Roll a perception check[/SPOILER]The beggar goes on listing off a bunch of different terms and ideas and factions In great length</blockquote>

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