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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6762988" data-attributes="member: 6777052">"I think," said BoldItalic after mumbling to himself for a while, "that, if we are going to go around adventuring together, we must gather a party before venturing forth.""Do you mean, find some followers? We seems to be doing quite well, just the two of us.""True, we have been fortunate and with your sword and my spells we have done much. But it was a close-run thing at times, was it not? My thought is that we should visit a hostelry that I know, to see who might care to join us. Besides," and here BoldItalic looked slyly at his friend, "a king needs a retinue.""A day's rest and refreshment in a comfortable inn would certainly be welcome," agreed Rylnethaz, "And cheerful company is always a boon. Where is this place you propose?""The Crown and Unicorn, in the village of Backwater. It is about half a day's journey from my cabin. I have been there a few times - the ale is quite excellent, the pies passable and the clientele might reasonably be described as colourful.""Then lead the way."[HR][/HR]The walk along the road to Backwater was quite uneventful. They did stop to aid a miller who had rats in the cellar of his mill, and the miller's wife did press upon them some most excellent cakes, but you would expect that, wouldn't you? And there was the pool where they stopped for a drink (to wash down the cakes) that happened to be the dwelling-place of a distressed nymph who needed someone to recover her hoard of diamonds from a dried-up cave that she could not herself enter, but that is hardly worthy of mention. After all, to a future king and his future vizier, a gift of a diamond apiece the size of hens eggs is all in a day's work, is it not? And as for the pack of wolves surrounding a messenger on horseback, well, there were only five of them. One curious thing, though, is that the messenger was called Rufus and his horse was also called Rufus. Sometimes the gods have little jokes like that, don't they?[HR][/HR]"That is Backwater, down there by the river," announced BoldItalic as the sun was beginning to set behind the distant hills, "and the large building with the smoke curling from the chimney is the Crown and Unicorn."</blockquote>

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