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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 1390908" data-attributes="member: 8243">There is quite a gathering in the Guardhouse by the end. The Guard Captain Hodgekos, the town magisatrate and a couple of the Meisters. Despite the attempt to whip yuo inside unseen, word gets out and after a while the crowd that gathers in the ground fllor rooom has to be ushered out and men put on the door to keep it that way.The gathering has a bizarre feel, as everyone agrees that it's not really a meeting as all the town council are not present, but depite that they cannot help but discuss and argue and agree that this and that must be done, all pending the council's agreement of course.Your words are spoken and heard and dismissed if they don't fit the generally accepted truth of the matter. Any mention of going back to warn the ogruin said in anything other than quiet whispers to one another will bring choruses of disapproval and see you hastily packed off home with a member of the Guard. Eventually, one way or the other, you are sent off home, with a pointless request not to discuss what you have seen til the council have time to discuss it and make the appropriate decisions. Pointless, you realise as soon as you are out of the Guardhouse, because everybody outside already has heard. Although what you hear often bear little relationship to what you experienced.Eventually you manage to break clear of the pack and find yourself a quiet place a little down the main street to talk.ooc: You are welcome to gather somewhere if you want. Or head home. Or whatever. Let me know.Cromwell, ever conscious of his orders, notes with surprise that the Captain seems careful not to give him any. "Good work." and "Thats all I need from you at the moment. Thank you." are all he says to you directly, once his questions are done. His watch is over by the time he gets outside with the others.Hey Greegan, welcome back. No biggie.Talk, talk, talk... that is all these folk do.  <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=":)" />  </blockquote>

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