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<blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 6135149" data-attributes="member: 63746"><p><span style="color: #A9A9A9"><em>OOC: So I take it we're going to bed for the night and doing all that tomorrow? If so:</em></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, and he must really find time to read that ledger, and send letter to his Sire, most dreaded of forthcoming tasks, and move his things from abode borrowed... Though this last perhaps not tonight after all? Antares looks from face to face. Reading the emotions there, he can't help smiling an amused, if tired, smile: <span style="color: Wheat">"So tomorrow then?"</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Wheat">"Have you eaten, Master Stonehand? Stellan and myself did sample some of the barreled meats after exiting those dread tunnels - the taste was... most satisfying."</span> Surprising how much spice hunger can add to even the simplest of fares! <span style="color: Wheat">"Yet in truth I would not mind some additional helpings?"</span></p><p></p><p>[OOC]If Muzdin (and Stellan) agrees, Antares will pay for all their meals, in modest celebration and thanks for their help today. (Let me know the total please, Gambler). </p><p></p><p>Should we start another thread for tomorrow?[/OOC]</p><p><span style="color: #FF8C00"><strong>[Later that night]</strong></span></p><p>[OOC]<strong>Whizbang = </strong>I think we'd settled that Antares was staying at your family's place after being kicked out of his own, right? If so, please feel encouraged/free to change the scene below to what it *should* be. If not, maybe this could be relatives of yours who had a free spot?[/OOC]Antares tip-toes into the cluttered kitchen of his host family, carefully closing the wooden door behind him as quietly as he can. It's fully dark out in the quiet night, just past bed time for the younger children, and though the embers still glow in the squat cooking heart to his left, even Garrett and Lavina had apparently already retired to-</p><p></p><p>Just then the floor above creaked, and looking up he saw a small Halfling woman, small lines around her blue-grey eyes but her hair still dark, looking down from the top of the abrupt stairs leading to the upstairs loft: she'd obviously heard the noise of his entrance and come to investigate.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Wheat">"Greetings, goodwife Lavina,"</span> softly, and with a respectful bow of the head. <span style="color: Wheat">"I have returned into your care once more."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Wheat">"I have come into some funds today,"</span> and many things besides, most of a more worrying nature -- but still, funds.<span style="color: Wheat"> "I might be able to move out as early as tomorrow, should appropriate lodgings be found; if not, then perhaps the day after?"</span> He does pay a small stipend for his stay, yet he could not help but feel a burden to his friend's family, burdened as they already were with so many younger copies of themselves.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #A9A9A9"><Response Lavina?></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #FF8C00">[A bit later still <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />]</span></strong></p><p>Alone again in the quiet kitchen, Antares considered the blessing of a bath, with warm water and fresh soap. They had cleaned themselves quickly back in the barracks, and yet he still stank of ashes and earth, he was quite sure... but at this hour he would have to pull water from the well himself, and heat it over the fire, dragging the huge family tub from out of the house's side-shed, and he is tired, with things yet to do... No doubt the powers that be would forgive him this small surrender to sloth?</p><p></p><p>So instead he rummaged in his appointed kitchen cupboard, where lay piled tight all that he had appropriated from his own family tower, and extracted a half-candle of fine beeswax, still set in its simple clay holder (a loan from the Bracegirdles). Lighting it on the embers - nearly burning his delicate fingers in the protracted process - he sat down at the low kitchen table, overhung with shiningly clean pots and black-bottomed pans, opened up the ledger from the burnt house on the thick, single plank table top and started to read the words written there in the flickering candlelight...</p><p></p><p>[OOC]While reading, he keeps in mind and looks for 1) any further mention of the mysterious ML, who might or might not be Lady Mirelle, 2) the well, or things coming from underground/the cellar (noises, etc), and 3) the two gems they found with the two bodies. Also, but to a lesser extent, general finances (trying to see how rich they were compared to say, the purse they found on the gelatinous cube victim) and/or even just the occupant's name, which they still don't know... Anything?[/OOC]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Binder Fred, post: 6135149, member: 63746"] [COLOR="#A9A9A9"][I]OOC: So I take it we're going to bed for the night and doing all that tomorrow? If so:[/I][/COLOR] Oh, and he must really find time to read that ledger, and send letter to his Sire, most dreaded of forthcoming tasks, and move his things from abode borrowed... Though this last perhaps not tonight after all? Antares looks from face to face. Reading the emotions there, he can't help smiling an amused, if tired, smile: [COLOR="Wheat"]"So tomorrow then?"[/COLOR] [COLOR="Wheat"]"Have you eaten, Master Stonehand? Stellan and myself did sample some of the barreled meats after exiting those dread tunnels - the taste was... most satisfying."[/COLOR] Surprising how much spice hunger can add to even the simplest of fares! [COLOR="Wheat"]"Yet in truth I would not mind some additional helpings?"[/COLOR] [OOC]If Muzdin (and Stellan) agrees, Antares will pay for all their meals, in modest celebration and thanks for their help today. (Let me know the total please, Gambler). Should we start another thread for tomorrow?[/OOC] [COLOR="#FF8C00"][B][Later that night][/B][/COLOR] [OOC][B]Whizbang = [/B]I think we'd settled that Antares was staying at your family's place after being kicked out of his own, right? If so, please feel encouraged/free to change the scene below to what it *should* be. If not, maybe this could be relatives of yours who had a free spot?[/OOC]Antares tip-toes into the cluttered kitchen of his host family, carefully closing the wooden door behind him as quietly as he can. It's fully dark out in the quiet night, just past bed time for the younger children, and though the embers still glow in the squat cooking heart to his left, even Garrett and Lavina had apparently already retired to- Just then the floor above creaked, and looking up he saw a small Halfling woman, small lines around her blue-grey eyes but her hair still dark, looking down from the top of the abrupt stairs leading to the upstairs loft: she'd obviously heard the noise of his entrance and come to investigate. [COLOR="Wheat"]"Greetings, goodwife Lavina,"[/COLOR] softly, and with a respectful bow of the head. [COLOR="Wheat"]"I have returned into your care once more."[/COLOR] [COLOR="Wheat"]"I have come into some funds today,"[/COLOR] and many things besides, most of a more worrying nature -- but still, funds.[COLOR="Wheat"] "I might be able to move out as early as tomorrow, should appropriate lodgings be found; if not, then perhaps the day after?"[/COLOR] He does pay a small stipend for his stay, yet he could not help but feel a burden to his friend's family, burdened as they already were with so many younger copies of themselves. [COLOR="#A9A9A9"]<Response Lavina?>[/COLOR] [B][COLOR="#FF8C00"][A bit later still :)][/COLOR][/B] Alone again in the quiet kitchen, Antares considered the blessing of a bath, with warm water and fresh soap. They had cleaned themselves quickly back in the barracks, and yet he still stank of ashes and earth, he was quite sure... but at this hour he would have to pull water from the well himself, and heat it over the fire, dragging the huge family tub from out of the house's side-shed, and he is tired, with things yet to do... No doubt the powers that be would forgive him this small surrender to sloth? So instead he rummaged in his appointed kitchen cupboard, where lay piled tight all that he had appropriated from his own family tower, and extracted a half-candle of fine beeswax, still set in its simple clay holder (a loan from the Bracegirdles). Lighting it on the embers - nearly burning his delicate fingers in the protracted process - he sat down at the low kitchen table, overhung with shiningly clean pots and black-bottomed pans, opened up the ledger from the burnt house on the thick, single plank table top and started to read the words written there in the flickering candlelight... [OOC]While reading, he keeps in mind and looks for 1) any further mention of the mysterious ML, who might or might not be Lady Mirelle, 2) the well, or things coming from underground/the cellar (noises, etc), and 3) the two gems they found with the two bodies. Also, but to a lesser extent, general finances (trying to see how rich they were compared to say, the purse they found on the gelatinous cube victim) and/or even just the occupant's name, which they still don't know... Anything?[/OOC] [/QUOTE]
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