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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 214629" data-attributes="member: 2673">Darkness in town(Note: This game several players couldn't make it.  Real life does interfere ocasionally.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  It was only me, Rytalyn's player, Jellyroll's player, and Warpriest, who managed to lose his character.  He introduced a couple others for this game, and I sent an NPC with them at one point since they were so short handed.  Still, we carried on.)Upon returning to town, the characters had some distractions.  It was a holy week for Coop's order, so he retired to the wilderness to contemplate the meaning of existence.  Beltar and Ameril heard some rumors of mind flayers being spotted in the south and went to investigate.  Vartan was helping Ellaria tend to her grove, and Helios had to heed the call of the Dark Cleric to retrieve a book of dark magics.  Afterward, he needed to Atone for his contact with the evil magics.Jellyroll and Rytalyn were sitting in the tavern having a few drinks, contemplating the plan of attack once the warriors returned from their tasks.  They heard a lot of grumbling in town, appearantly Lord Eldrad had a new consort, and she was filling his head with all kinds of dark thoughts.  He wasn't the same, and had posted some harsh new laws in the name of order.  They met a newcomer to town, an elvish swordsman named Latheril.  The three of them decided to go and see Lord Eldrad and find out what was going on.The post in the center of town was decorated with a new paper descibing the laws.- No person shall bear arms against another within the town of Hookhill, on penalty of death.- No person may cast magics within the town of Hookhill, on penalty of death.- All magical items possessed by citizens of Hookhill or those entering the town will be taxed 10% of the item's value each month.Finding these laws utterly unacceptable, they went to see the Lord that they had helped so recently.He saw them right away and seemed a bit distant.  There was a raven-haired beauty right behind him the entire time.  He listened to their objections and then flatly stated "Though your service is appreciated, you are not the law.  I am.  You will obey all the ordinances or face the consequences.  Adventurers are in no way immune.  Order will be kept by the new guards I've hired."Several dark clad adventurers came out of the back room.  One had the smell of brimstone about him, anothers' eyes glowed with hellfire.  Apperantly the Lord now saw no problem with using tiefling mercenaries as muscle.The beauty behind the lord smiled and stared at Rytalyn.  She heard a voice in her head say 'Your priest isn't here to save you now, bitch.'They returned to the bar to plan their next move.</blockquote>

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