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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Branding Opportunity" data-source="post: 3367070" data-attributes="member: 31812">ThunderThunder shakes Selvaggio's hand, nearly lifting him off the ground in his enthusiasm, "Could have used yours as well, Shaman.  Got into  bit of a bind there.  I was taken by the [Foul Damaran swear word!] cursed hobgoblins to some underground lair.  I guess they sold me as a slave or sacrifice or something.  A few hours later another group appeared, led by a particularly offensive ogre, and they trussed me up like a boar and carried me off, deeper into the city."Here his voice grows quieter (which means that only half the tavern can hear him clearly) and he leans forward.  "I was taken through some kind of open market with a dozen different humanoid races standing around haggling, drinking, fighting and fornicating."  Thunder shrugs his shoulders and waves his hand as if to say that seeing these kinds of things were common-place."There was a castle there as well with a large gate.  Heavily guarded it was, by creatures as large as giants.  They stuffed me into a cage with this skinny half-elf.  Looked like he has been there a while.  Didn't talk much, but then again neither did I, since they had me bound and gagged."The giant man shrugs his massive shoulders again and continues, "Must have been there a few days.  Seems like I lost track of time.  Anyways, they then blind-folded me and led me through some kind of garden into a building ... the castle most likely.  Heard a deep, strange voice talking to me there and I felt a hand grip my mind.  Inside my mind, I mean.  I told it that it most likely was the offspring of a otyugh and a female aurochs.  Didn't have much to say to me after that, heh, heh, heh."  Here he chuckles, showing you his yellowed, crooked teeth."Then I heard the same voice say, 'Give him to the gnolls.  Tell them to have some fun before they are done with him.'  They dragged me out of there and off to the west.  I knew it was west, because they took off my blindfold and loosened my ropes to give me room to walk."I was able to loosen my ropes and eventually make my escape.  You should have heard those orcs and hobgoblins howling as I dashed away from them.  They had certainly never seen a Damaran plainsman run before!"  Thunder winks at you and smiles."Well, from there I made my way back to the slums of New Phlan and then to here.  And that's my story!"He turns to the assembled group, "So what have you lot been up to?  Any good battles?  Does anything I said make any sense to you?  You don't happen to know who the man with the deep voice might be.  My hands are longing to find his windpipe.  I don't like it when someone touches my mind!"</blockquote>

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