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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1743704" data-attributes="member: 1891">The Follies RegroupWith two exceptions, the Follies made their way back to Farry's Port by the most direct route possible.Jaehn took a path that brought him close to Dracon Row, and collected Drake without slowing down. Drake communicated to him that he had seen nothing out of the ordinary while they were gone.Vicktor made a stop of an altogether different nature: he returned to the barge that he had left only moments ago, stuffed its unconscious passenger into a large burlap sack, and then headed for Farry's Port with the orc tossed over one shoulder. With none of the Follies drenched in blood -- spattered, or red to the ankles, yes, but not drenched -- and Vicktor sticking to side streets with his cargo, everyone managed to make it back to Farry's Port without incident.Arriving separately and in pairs, the Follies immediately headed upstairs, and all of them gathered in the larger of their two rooms. Vicktor got there last, and everyone was surprised to see that he had brought a prisoner.Once the orc was out of the bag, some Follies searched him -- finding only a coin purse containing twenty of Sembia's pentagonal gold coins, called Princes -- while the others examined the whistle. It looked nearly identical to the one carried by the dogsbloods they had encountered the night before, with the only real difference being that it was built to produce a different tone.Having had some time to get their minds around what just happened on the docks, the Follies began sharing stories and discussing the events of the past few hours -- and in particular, the wild and confusing minute-long melee in front of the Copper Cup.The Follies were mostly in agreement that the first giant was out of control, and the two whistlers were trying to get the other giants to help them keep him in check. They were more divided on other topics, some seeing coincidences -- the two attacks roughly coinciding with the two times they saw the shimmering man, for example -- and others speculating about conspiracies.Whether or not Gurrom's Wheels and Baric's Pikemen were involved in some sort of guard war was also a topic of discussion -- but everyone agreed that whether or not they themselves had been involved before, they certainly were now.When Vicktor pointed out that their prisoner wasn't going to stay asleep forever, talk turned to what to do with the orc.Having sensed his evil, De'lea favored turning their prisoner over to the authorities, while Tal preferred the idea of bringing him to justice in the nearest temple of Torm. The others disagreed in one form or another -- but one thing everyone agreed on was that they didn't want the orc to wake up and get a good look at them all.After blindfolding him, Cupric cast a ghost sound to mask their location as well, making the room sound like the inside of a barn (complete with whickering animals, chirping birds and so forth). Tuggle followed up by using a recent occupant to learn the prisoner's name: Valic Zell.With the sounds of Selgaunt outside their window -- and the sounds of a pastoral farmhouse in their room -- the Follies settled in to wait for Valic to wake up.</blockquote>

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