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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 133409" data-attributes="member: 67">Session 1, part 2I get to talking with my old friend and I tell him about tonight’s parade.  All the council’s supposed to be there and it’d probably be a good idea if we were, too.  But he wants to go somewhere fancy to eat, first.  I know a very high-classed restaurant downtown, so we take off (all of us, to my chagrin).  He makes a bet with Virian (the only taker) that he can get a meal without paying.  The rest of us decide to wait outside while Jared and Virian go in to see how good he really is.  It turns out he’s not the greatest, but he’s okay.  The dwarf that greets them doesn’t appear (from our vantage point outside of the window) to be overly impressed with Jared’s attempts to convince him that he represents the interests of a duke and would like to sample the fare.  In the end, the dwarf goes to speak to a manager and comes back.  It looks like he’s getting a free meal.  The rest of us come in.  The dwarf tells Fruff that the rat will have to stay outside, so the halfling goes out and sets up a table in the alley next to the window and imitates the diners on the inside.  Cute kid.I order some meal (that I can barely afford.  Virian’s a good guy; he covers me with the money he made playing in the Dancing Boar.) and take it outside.  I share it with the halfling.  It’s almost dusk, so I take the kid and head toward the street.  It’ll be good to catch the beginning of the parade.  That halfling and his creature are a handful!  I can barely keep him reigned in.  We see a platform that the high councilor will be on and I chat with the bearers of it for a little bit.  But where has that hafling gotten off to?The rest of Jared’s group shows up and I mention that I heard there are ghosts attacking farms and caravans to the south of the city and that tomorrow morning I’m heading down there to check it out.  Now, neither Jared, nor I, believe in ghosts, but we have our ideas about what’s up and we discuss it a little in Cant.  We’re on the same page, I think.  We definitely want to check this out and see what’s really going on.At some point in the evening, Maialin tries to pick someone's pocket and gets chased by an angry guard, so I grab her and hide here in the crowd of people, while Virian "accidentally" knocks over a keg of ale to slow down the pursuit.  She'll have to be more careful in this town.The parade draws to a close and I take Jared, Maialin, and the very inebriated halfling to my little home.  Toady has made us a nice stew (with the rest of my rum, if my nose is any good) and I give him a raise on the spot—just enough to cover the rum he’s gone through.  I tell him to keep an eye on the halfling, who, as near as I can tell, is blessing my garden while the rat-thing is trying to eat it.  He’s sleeping outside tonight.Now, finally, we can get to business.  Jared, Maialin, and I discuss our suspicions about the disturbances to the south.  We’re pretty sure that there’s more wrong than just destroyed farms and trade goods and have a good idea what.  We also have a pretty good hunch who’s behind it all, but what we can’t settle on is why.Just then, Toady comes in and tells me that Fruff has gone off to the neighbors because he saw some light on the road.  "Oh, s**t!" I exclaim and run out after him, grabbing the lantern on my way.  Jared runs with me.  We catch up to the kid at the edge of my cornfields quivering and wailing in fear.  I finally manage to calm him, when he starts up again, pointing behind me.  I turn around and see that he’s just scared of my scarecrow!It takes me a few seconds to remember that I don’t have any scarecrows.</blockquote>

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