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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1689443" data-attributes="member: 1891">I'm off to Salt Lake City for about a week, so here's a quick post just in case I can't update from the road (darn that whole "not owning a laptop" thing). Enjoy!Suspecting that his bee might have missed its mark, Jaehn finished up a second summoning spell -- this time calling into being a shining white celestial monkey. This monkey appeared on the roof and immediately began chasing after the blue-robed figure, its wild shrieks sounding like a cross between monkey howls and a choir of monks. Faced with a wide gap between two buildings, it somersaulted into the air -- De'lea and Tuggle spotted it from the street, tiny sparkling halo and all -- and disappeared from sight. Blinking, De'lea said to no one in particular, "I think I just saw a monkey of Sune run across the roof."Inside Tarayn's shop, Talishmere opened the inner door with a vague premonition of dread. In the small room beyond was a bulky dwarf wearing some sort of armor cobbled together from leather and various bits of metal plate. He was staring, aghast, at a smoking puddle on the glass-strewn floor in front of him. Tal said, "Are you open for business? I tried to knock."His eyes still wide, the dwarf responded, "Get that armored apron from the bench behind you." When Tal had found the apron, the dwarf said, "Put it on." After waiting for Tal to do so, he continued: "Now lay on the puddle."Tal replied, "How about if I just lay it over the puddle?" This done, the dwarf stepped carefully around the spill -- trying to tread on the apron as little as possible -- and made it through the door, which he slammed shut. Leaning against the door, he gave Tal an appraising look and said, "You're pretty sharp, for a human."A brief discussion ensued, during which Tal learned that Tarayn last saw Martooth that morning, and that he couldn't understand why any self-respecting drakesmith would want to keep regular hours. Things headed south when Tal told the dwarf that there had been people up on his roof, and got steadily worse once he mentioned that his friends were in fact up there right now. Meaning to head up to the roof, Tarayn demanded Tal's sword -- Tal refused -- and the dwarf wound things up by ejecting him from the shop.Outside, Jaehn's bee had vanished -- leaving Vicktor somewhat confused -- and Artemis, his fear having worn off, had returned to the group. When Jaehn felt the bee pop out of existence, De'lea lowered her bow and the Follies moved completely out of combat mode.As there were now small crowds of people watching them from one street over, Tuggle bowed and announced loudly, "And thus ends our performance!"While De'lea waited nearby, Artemis, Jaehn and Tuggle gathered around the door to Martooth's shop. On the roof above, Vicktor found a rope-wrapped glass jug of wine and a few crumbs where Tal first saw the robed figure. Speculating that perhaps it had just been a wino after all, he walked over to the edge of the roof facing the street to tell the other Follies what was on the roof.At this moment, his failed attempt at diplomacy complete, Tal emerged from Tarayn's shop. Spotting him, Vicktor shouted down a description of what he found -- and then dropped the wine bottle. Making to catch it with his heavy steel gauntlet, Tal naturally wound up drenched in wine when the bottle shattered over his upraised hand.</blockquote>

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