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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 8491677" data-attributes="member: 2012">Vinccenzo nods to the Loremaster. He keeps one eye on the prisoners and one eye on Falen. The seer seems to be willing to blend into the background and keep watch. The guards gathered at the Quill Gate also keep an eye out for trouble while helping Vinny keep the prisoners out of the way of the crowds passing through the gateway into the Trench and down through the Narrow.If there is anyone else purposely watching them, the Loremaster can't tell now that all eyes on them and the guards. A few people look around with a bit of worry and a few residents retreat to their homes.Akos finds the Silver Raven very full of patrons. There is a lot of drinking going on for early in the day. The Loremster's growing reputation proceeds him into the tavern and several patrons greet him warmly. The patrons hadn't noticed Breva right away even though he stands out in his armor. Several young nobles offer to buy them both a drink. Others thank the gods they are alive and that the magical effect of the Gate of Scales didn't swallow them up."I heard the Renegade trapped you all in someplace called Sigil," a young noble waif says to Akos. "It is good that you managed to escape and return here. The Loyalists seem to be everywhere and the Regulars are beyond their breaking point." The Loremaster can tell the woman has had a few drinks but isn't drunk, just a bit tipsy.Akos senses that she and many of the other patrons are worn out from all the chaos happening in Bluffside. She looks listless. Akos and Breva's sudden arrival sends a wave of hope through the crowd but also a bit of concern. It is quickly becoming well known that where the Exemplars tread, danger may be lurking. The joy of your arrival isn't shared by the tavern owner behind the bar. He looks worried as he starts stowing expensive bottles of liquor under the bar."I hope you only here to drink, good sirs," he says to you. "I don't want to have to buy new furniture."Breva doesn't sense a strong aura of evil on any of the patrons, but there are a few faint auras on some of the more disreputable looking patrons in the Silver Raven. The young paladin doesn't feel particularly threatened by these individuals, however. One table is filled with a group of traders who look oily; each man at the table has a very faint aura of evil. They barely glance in your direction and seem content to drink their troubles away.Breva senses no lingering auras left by the kobold. The patrons are mixture of different peoples, so a kobold wouldn't be completely out of place. Still, most of the patrons are human or halfling.[HR][/HR]For [USER=6790669]@Tellerian Hawke[/USER]:At the back of the tavern, Sir Tim searches up and down the alleyway, but if the kobold is hiding somewhere, Tim will need either Tuck's skills or magic to locate the reptilian foe. The alleyway opens up onto another street, so the kobold is likely gone. Tim backtracked to the back door of the tavern and tries to squeeze through the doorway. It is a very tight fit and there are too many patrons in the way.A sodden, middle-aged noblewoman stumbles right into Tim. She looks like she can barely stand. At first, she is annoyed by him being in her way, but then she gets a look at the size of the half-ogre knight. "Ooh, you are a very tall fellow, aren't you." She buries her nose into Tim's clothes. "Musky too." She hiccups and then stumbles back into the tavern while giggling.[HR][/HR]Custodio reads the note. He tries to find a place to sit down. When that fails, he leans against the wall."Those bastards are going to pay for this!" Custodio snaps. "The gall of them!"He reads the note again and shakes his head. "It doesn't surprise me that Waldo sent the doppelgangers after Mani. Or maybe it was the gnome who sent them." He sighs. "You're right, we can't rely on this place anymore. Maybe we can come back and secure it later. Hopefully, the Renegade's lackey's haven't attacked Stormgrove too."Custodio hands the note back to Tuck and then offers the lit torch to burn the note, but then he hesitates. "Hmm, maybe we should take this note to the others and let them read it as well. I know the Lord Commander wants us to destroy it, but he didn't know it would only be the two of us here and now."He sighs again and hands the torch to Tuck. "I'll leave it up to you. If you have it memorized, we'll burn it now and summarize it for them. Hopefully there isn't some hidden meaning or message."Custodio follows Tuck and Mutt out of the old manor house and locks it behind him. He stows his key and the two of them head back the way they came with even more haste. Hopefully the Elites stationed at the gates leading into the Trench are trustworthy. Custodio watches Tuck's back while keeping an eye out for trouble.[Spoiler="DM Only!"]<a href="http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=256617" target="_blank">Custodio - Listen & Spot checks: 1D20+5 = [8]+5 = 13</a><a href="http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=256617" target="_blank">1D20+5 = [10]+5 = 15</a>He doesn't see or hear anything unusual.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:"  data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />[/Spoiler]</blockquote>

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