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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Craig Fox" data-source="post: 7116851" data-attributes="member: 6882019">All round the table, it grew quiet. Well, it would have been quiet had it not been for the sound of Stonnard's gut thunderously rumbling away."Is something the matter, Stonnard?" Acererak asked, with ominous mildness. The safe option would've been to say "No, nothing" and keep suffering in silence, but an 8 Wisdom is always going to manifest itself eventually."I'm so hungry!" whined the dwarf. "I only came in here because Bob Until, and therefore I guess you, promised me all the hors d'oeuvres I could eat. But there hasn't been a single hors d'oeuvre yet. Just stupid flounces and flounders and rolls for initiative which aren't even bread rolls and...""At this table," said Acererak in a voice just above a whisper that still cut all murmuring dead, "we earn our tasty finger food. Speaking of which, Stonnard" he said, fixing his gaze on the cringing dwarf "I've seen how often you eat iron rations and don't cross them off your character sheet. I've also noticed how often you eat a tavern meal, or drink flagons of ale, and 'forget' to deduct the coins when the DM tells you the price. I shall now deduct the value of what you owe from your current possessions."There was a bang, a flash, and when the smoke cleared, Stonnard stood before everyone, naked. The flounders flinched, as one. It was a cruel thing to do to a man without any hint of a Dexterity bonus."You bastard!" Stonnard shouted. "How am I supposed to go adventuring like this?""Don't be such a baby." Acererak chided. "People used to end up like this at the start of the dungeon, and had to either wait for their friends who probably weren't coming out anyway, or do the walk of shame back to the local village. You're much luckier. Your friends are still here, there's a bunch of flounders, one in ten of who may actually be useful, and you're not down even a single hit point. Now stop crying, square up, and get ready to kick ass with your naked ass.""He'll be fine." said Verice. "Besides, it'll give us a chance to get to know the soft, tender dwarf beneath the belching, iron-clad hairy grumpy foul-mouthed exterior."Acererak nodded. The air shimmered, and the party found themselves inside the world's most generic tavern. Unshaven drunks sipped beer sullenly round filthy tables. A bored middle-aged bartender took orders, while a freckled barmaid slapped away wandering hands while delivering bar. In addition to this, a bewildered group of adventurers, with one nude dwarf, waited for a mysterious stranger to deliver an assignment.Then the entire tavern's attention was drawn by an alluring smell of baking bread, and the bright glow of letters that appeared in the air.WANT ROLLS?SHOW SOME INITIATIVE.</blockquote>

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