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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 303715" data-attributes="member: 6390">As we continue.....Priest, Sorcerer, Rogue  A thin, weedy man with circles of exhaustion approaches the trio, and the large Zulu prostitute.  His hands shake from exhaustion, and he wavers in his place.  He looks at the Sorcerer/Wizard and says "Please, take him to the back room.  We shall care for him, no matter what his crime is."  THe Zulu and the Rogue take the Sorcerer into the back room of the Hospice of St Andrew where there were many other people with wounds inflicted by weaponry were.  The nun back there shook her head.  "Another one?  More and more the guards are killing for minor crimes." she sighed, and turned back to trying to make a young woman feel better as she passed beyond the viel.  As the Priest began to walk by, the exhausted man stated:  "It would be easier, brother, if I took care of your friends injury.  I sense you do not have the faith in your god to heal your friend, I do.  If you could but ease my burden by attending to those you have faith that you can help, I will assist your friend.:  The Priest agreed, and the Zulu prostitute, Rogue, and grieviously injured sorcerer were escorted through a secret passage in the basement, across a rickety bridge in the sewers, and into a secret area where criminals were being cared for.  The Legionairre agreed to escort the Zulu woman back to the brothel where she lived, and they left the Hospice of St Andrew.The Chinese Monk and the Gunslinger  The chinese monk carried the unconcious owner of the Iron Butterfly through the streets, following the directions the beggar gave her to a place where the woman could be cared for without the guard investigating too closely.  In the Hospice of St Andrew, they immediately took the owner of the Iron Butterfly into thier mercy, but she did not recognise the Priest.  The Gunslinger sees a pair of men veering toward the Chinese girl as she stands outside of the Hospice and watches the people enjoy the party.  The Gunslinger pushes her way through the crowd, relying on her strength and bulk, "using her naked breasts like the prow of an ice-breaker."  Just before the two toughs reach the Chinese girl, who is reflecting that this party is much like the New Year celebration of her homeland, the Gunslinger grabs the first one, slams the barrel of the pistol between two buttcheeks beneath the loincloth the man is wearing, and pulls the trigger, muffling the sound of the shot.  The man's stomach explodes from the gunshot, and she points at his compainion.  "WITCHCRAFT!" she screams, then ducks into the Hospice, dragging the monk with her.  The crowd begins pummeling the other man to death.The Zulu Prostitute and the Roman Legionairre......  Returning to the brothel, the Fighter insists on stopping back by the inn, where he sees that it is burning down.  His attention is drawn to the fact that several bums are sitting in the entryway of an abandoned house, and one is motioning to him.  He whispers to the Zulu to wait for him a moment, and goes over to the circle.  There he meets the man who hired him to follow the noble woman, surrounded by several other people.  He is told that the noble woman he followed had given herself to the man that she met in the brothel, but they performed the act upon the fighters bed, and by doing that, implicated the fighter as being the one who "took her maidenhead."  The fighter is now wanted for the "rape of a noble virgin."  His friends are wanted for witchcraft, assaulting guardsmen, and arson.  BUT, he can smuggle the party out of the city if they do a "few triflin' tasks for me, being such bonnie lads and lasses."  The fighter agrees to meet the man at the Rusty Frog Tavern at one bell past darkness.  The fighter and the Zulu return to the brothel, where the fighter purchases the Zulu from the madam with the last of his gold pieces, buying the key to her slaverly collar.  They then hide out in the basement of a ruined house for the night.</blockquote>

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