(Tavern) City of Orussus, The Red Dragon Inn VII

[Kahuna Burger]

Kirin's lips tug a little when the young card shark speaks of those who know the world as he does and she laughs out loud at the implication of evesdropping. "You are a bold one, I'll certainly give you that," she says with a kind smile and turns her attention to those who had preceeded her to the table. "If this space is reserved for games then I can sit elsewhere, but I would like to continue our conversation. There's a new crowd in here every time I come, and I've learned to do my best to understand my fellow adventurer's motivations before we are thrown together by one seeking our aid."

 

[Boddynock]

Brother Eusebius, human monk 1

"If this space is reserved for games then I can sit elsewhere, but I would like to continue our conversation. There's a new crowd in here every time I come, and I've learned to do my best to understand my fellow adventurer's motivations before we are thrown together by one seeking our aid."

Bowing once more, Eusebius says, "I await your reply, sir!" Returning to his table, he says, "If any tables here can be reserved, then this one is reserved for those who, like you, Kirin, seek to learn more of one another, and to uncover our common goals. If our brash young friend wishes to sit with us, and to pass the time by playing cards, he, too, is welcome. Who knows, he may yet learn some wisdom, to offset that lamentable predisposition to judge too quickly!"

"Deal me in, O nimble-fingered one!"

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Kirin moves over a seat if need be to keep her meal out of the area of play and adresses the bald man. "Brother Eusebius, it was? Were you trained as a temple gaurd?"

 

[Boddynock]

Kirin moves over a seat if need be to keep her meal out of the area of play and adresses the bald man. "Brother Eusebius, it was? Were you trained as a temple gaurd?"

"Not as a guard, no, but as a seeker after truth - and, in truth, an instrument of vengeance. I have had my own encounters with the darkness. The Temple took me in when I was all but lost in the dark, and showed me that by an individual's purity, and by that strength which is God-given in us all, the darkness need not prevail - will not, if good folk do not allow it!"

"The undead are the Lord Hyrag's particular enemy. So, too, they are mine. They are many, but I will whittle down the army. And for every innocent life I can save, or at any rate for each one who is undeserving of such a death, I give thanks to the Flame."

"And along the way, if called on to knock the heads of those who murder, steal and oppress, then knock heads I will!"

 

[nimisgod]

Veras-Re slowly looks up at the form of Brother Eusebius.

"No. He seems honest enough." he says to no one in particular. "Leave him be. I said, leave him be!"

The dwarf nurses the ale in his mug, content to drink in peace instead of socialize. He waits to see if anything comes up.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

"Not as a guard, no, but as a seeker after truth - and, in truth, an instrument of vengeance. I have had my own encounters with the darkness. The Temple took me in when I was all but lost in the dark, and showed me that by an individual's purity, and by that strength which is God-given in us all, the darkness need not prevail - will not, if good folk do not allow it!"

"The undead are the Lord Hyrag's particular enemy. So, too, they are mine. They are many, but I will whittle down the army. And for every innocent life I can save, or at any rate for each one who is undeserving of such a death, I give thanks to the Flame."

"And along the way, if called on to knock the heads of those who murder, steal and oppress, then knock heads I will!"

Kirin nods. "I think we have similar end points, if different ways of getting there. At the hospice where I was raised I learned that every mortal's strength comes from within, and that we must take action to improve the world. While I have no special quest against the undead, I've been trained in repelling them and I know that the magics that heal mortals damage those animated by necromancy. I think if you are willing to look past some differencs in philosophy that we could work well together."

If Nodis is not completely engrossed in the game, the gnome says quietly to him, "I confess that I haven't encountered magic exactly like yours before, but I can tell you that people harness magic in many different ways. Some study for years to learn spells passed down like family recipies, while others find that those spells bubble out of them whether they sought such a life or not. Still others find that their dedication to another ideal leads them to specialised sorts of magic.... magic is more common amoung my people than yours, but that doesn't make you a freak. Simply talented." As she runs out of sausages, she grins down at her disapointed hound and adds, "Now if your ability to create things extends to meat, Cirus here would count you as a god."

 

[azmodean]

Artax nods to Bartholemu and smiles at all the new arrivals. "Well then! The Red Dragon Inn starts to live up to its name!", noticing a glare from a nearby barmaid, Artax ducks his head, "er, no offence to the inn intended, of course."

Turning to the new arrivals, Artax continues, "Now this is fortuitous, we were commenting that all we were missing for a well-rounded group would be a healer of some sort just before you two arrived, and now there is not one, but two practitioners of that art."

"I'm curious to hear about this view of the world you have, Bartholemu, that disagrees with helping people. It seems to me that if people don't help one another, then it is certain that no one else will."

 

[Someone]

Nodis, Shaper 1

Nodis starts playing, and picks the rules fairly quickly, but soon it´s clear the he´s not paying so much attention to the game as to what the others say.

If Nodis is not completely engrossed in the game, the gnome says quietly to him, "I confess that I haven't encountered magic exactly like yours before, but I can tell you that people harness magic in many different ways. Some study for years to learn spells passed down like family recipies, while others find that those spells bubble out of them whether they sought such a life or not. Still others find that their dedication to another ideal leads them to specialised sorts of magic.... magic is more common amoung my people than yours, but that doesn't make you a freak. Simply talented." As she runs out of sausages, she grins down at her disapointed hound and adds, "Now if your ability to create things extends to meat, Cirus here would count you as a god."

"That´s a matter of numbers and opinions." replies Nodis. "Here everone is used to... this kind of things, saw them in action and know they can be useful. What if I had four arms, or clawed hands? Sure, they can be handy in a fight. But not normal, you see."

"No, not meat. Cotton, linen, wood, hemp, dried flowers, tobacco; clothes, ladders, boxes, poles, rope, toys, whatever. But not meat"

 

[Kahuna Burger]

"That´s a matter of numbers and opinions." replies Nodis. "Here everone is used to... this kind of things, saw them in action and know they can be useful. What if I had four arms, or clawed hands? Sure, they can be handy in a fight. But not normal, you see."

"No, not meat. Cotton, linen, wood, hemp, dried flowers, tobacco; clothes, ladders, boxes, poles, rope, toys, whatever. But not meat"

"Sorry, Cirus," Kirin says, "You'll just have to hope someone falls for the starvation routine. In any case," she adds "I think you will like it here at the Dragon. No one is 'normal', and I think most would be perfectly happy to accept a young man with four arms and claws - as long as he was the kind of young man they could trust to guard their back in a fight."

Turning to the new arrivals, Artax continues, "Now this is fortuitous, we were commenting that all we were missing for a well-rounded group would be a healer of some sort just before you two arrived, and now there is not one, but two practitioners of that art."

"I'm curious to hear about this view of the world you have, Bartholemu, that disagrees with helping people. It seems to me that if people don't help one another, then it is certain that no one else will."

"Now thats a sentiment that will get no argument from me," Kirin says with a curious smile. "And what do you bring to a well rounded group, sir?"

[ooc: is artax wearing a symbol of a lit candle anywhere?]

 

[Someone]

Nodis, Shaper 1

"I think most would be perfectly happy to accept a young man with four arms and claws - as long as he was the kind of young man they could trust to guard their back in a fight."

"Someone told me that there´s people that can grow big claws with the same prana as I use, but I don´t quite believe it, he wasn´t a nice person anyway."

"Now, what are we supposed to do? A rich man will come through the door and offer us money?"