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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Electric Wizard" data-source="post: 6103224" data-attributes="member: 83982">The Two AddersAdditional information about Hex 40.20Hyfalls' largest tavern, the Two Adders, is built from the hulls of two overturned ships. In their lives, they were proud war-barques of the August City. The peeling, faded black snakes painted on the gunwales mark them as ships of Blindsnake.The Two Adders' landlady is Jaustina, a scowling, iron-haired Shuttered woman who behaves like she is in the tavern against her will. Despite her attitude, her delicious alligator pies and nightly pot of death games keep her business brisk. Pot of death is a game unique to Hyfalls that involves shuffling around a number of long-necked clay pots. One or more pots contains a venomous centipede, while the rest are empty. Restless caravan guards and sailors place bets on whether or not the players will get bitten when they stick their hands in the pots.Jaustina helps the hobgoblins beneath the city smuggle artifacts out of Hyfalls. For an uncomfortably long time, she has held a great talisman made of Tiamat bone shards (3.13.01). The talisman is shaped like a woman, and is almost too large to be worn by a human. It was supposed to be picked up by an agent of the Tiamatan Revival (29.14), but he died during a drunken pot of death game before he could retrieve it. The Tiamatan Revival, however, suspects that the Temple Invisible has interfered with the delivery and are biding their time.The talisman is known as Tiamat's Nurse. A woman who wears it during her pregnancy will give birth to a dragonblooded child. First-generation dragonblooded children are magical prodigies, and are inclined towards evil. Tiamat's Nurse, locked in its chest beneath the inn, sends intense dreams to the pregnant women of Hyfalls. Some of these women have been awakened while sleepwalking through the Two Adders with great urgency. The women all awaken violently, going as far to wield stray mugs or knives. Jaustina knows the talisman is behind the disturbances, but she fears casting it into the Keening Sea.Hooks-What remains of the August City's fleet?-Are deaths common in pot of death? How do the authorities view the game?-Who buys the smuggled artifacts?-Tell me about the history of Tiamat's Nurse. When was it created? Who has worn it in the past? How did it end up in Hyfalls?</blockquote>

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