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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 6146628" data-attributes="member: 93930">Uder ambles down the gangplank and watches the rescue with mild interest. "I'd've let the wee gel have her kill.  It was a good shot, and he's not likely to get anything near so clean from the rest around here." Suddenly, the dwarf draws his war-axe and moves to a defensive position.  A moment later, you also see the light of approaching torches coming around a bend in the road.  Peet slips into the shadows, and Shari glances at you and retreats up the gangplank.As the lights approach, you can hear muttered conversations.  When the torches finally round the bend, what comes into view is the entire crew of the boat being escorted by a selection of rough-looking men.  Most of the sailors appear to be at least partially drunk, and one is actually being carried on a stretcher.Their chaperones are fairly heavily armed, but their weapons remain in their sheaths.  For the most part, they ignore you and simply begin ushering the sailors up the gangplank and back onto the boat.  The sailors are clearly unhappy with the state of affairs, but aside from some very quiet grumbling about having their evenings cut short, none of them argue, which suggests that the pecking order has already been clearly established, and the crewmen have found themselves at the bottom of it.While the sailors are shuffling on board, a female halfling (who seems to be in charge of the operation) and one of the chaperones pause to examine your unconscious prisoner of war. "Know him?" the halfling asks."Don't know the name, but I do know the face.  Runs with an independent bunch of wharf rats on the south side, I think.  He's not one of King's."The halfling snorts.  "So King's trying to cover his tracks, and this is the best he could do?  How utterly pathetic."  After a moment, she looks up and acknowledges your presence.  "Mister Stormforge, I presume?  I represent Mister Cato of the Western Sea Syndicate.  He understands that you have a ... friend of his on board.  Since we're here already, we thought we might escort him safely back home."  She smiles sweetly at you, but it doesn't reach her eyes at all.  Despite her size, she suddenly seems very, very dangerous."What in the blue hells is going on?" Uder mutters.<img src="http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/pnthffr/sugarsweet_100.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii513/pnthffr/uder_150.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> . . . ???? . . . . . . Uder Gormengeist .</blockquote>

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