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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 158475" data-attributes="member: 1679">InvestigateInvestigate“So may we please see the mayor now?”  Ladinya asked the woman in front of her in her most diplomatic tone of voice.Lelanna Al’Veren glared at the party.  “No, you may not see the mayor.  He is a very important man, and he has better things to do than to meet with a bunch of rag-tag adventures who are barely able to kill rats.”Milo reached down and slid an axe a few inches out of its loop.  “I would like to see the mayor now, ma’am.”Lelanna Al’Veren reappraised the situation.  “All right, you, and only you, Milo Bookbender, can see the mayor.  Go in through that door.  Now!  Don’t make me change my mind.”Smiling sheepishly, Milo, dashed through the door.The mayor office was well appointed; there was a wall of bookcases, and a large wall map of the Kingdom of Crayvaenn.  The room was dominated by a large mahogany desk, which itself was dominated by a three foot subway sandwich.  Behind all this finery, the small, thin, elderly mayor appeared almost insignificant.“Hello.  Would you like a piece of my sandwich?”  The mayor smiled, and offered a good third of it to Milo.“Well, um, sure.  Halfling Rule Number 1, ya’ know.”  Milo said, taking the sandwich.“I am Rudiger Al’Veren, the mayor of this town.   So you wanted to talk with me.”“Yes.”  Milo replied around a mouthful of sandwich.  “I was wondering if you had any problems in this town that maybe my party and I could solve.”“No, no, not really. Ah-ha!” Rudiger’s creased face broke into a smile.  “I believe we have some ghouls in the graveyard.  Speaking of ghouls in the graveyard, have you ever heard the song?  I’ve got ghouls in the graveyard,And I don’t know what to do.They’ve eaten everyone I know,Even the stupid bard.I’ve got ghouls in the graveyard…”“We just solved that problem yesterday, sliced and diced, no survivors.”“Hmm.  Just wondering what is Halfling Rule Number 1?”“ If it’s free, it’s your’s.”The mayor laughed, “That’s my Mayor’s Rule Number 2.”“And what Number 1”“Help my friends. So what can I do for you, my friend.”“An ale, or two, or six.”Both men laughed.Lelanna Al’Veren glanced at the door, then back to the three remaining member’s of the party.  “Ladies, let’s get down to business.  Children have been disappearing.”“And what do you want us to do about this?”  Ladinya asked.“Find them.”“Don’t you have your own people to do stuff like that that?”  Kit blurted.“Yes.”  Lelanna stared down the rogue.  “However, I feel that this matter is too sensitive to be trusted to the town guard.  The louts would probably arrest a few random people, hold them in jail for a few days and then tell me that the children are gone for good, and the trail is too cold to continue pursuit.  I think that you can help track down the missing children and deal with the kidnappers with… extreme prejudice.  I don’t want to see those scum ever again.”“Yes ma’am.” Kit answered sadly, “Back to law and order again.”“So why do we have to talk to these people?”  Milo asked for the third time.“Because the mayor’s wife, and the Forces of Good, have charged us to locate the lost children, and succor them from evil.  For it sayeht in Wilderness 4:27-29 ‘And thou shall look after all thine children as if they were thine most precious love, for the children are as the future, and as lambs, and deer, and mountain goats, and squid, and orangutans…” Nikki quoted from her holy texts.“All right I get your point.” Milo grumbled. “But why can’t I go and get drunk until we have something to kill.”“Because it would do you good to talk to real people instead of drunken louts for once.” Ladinya admonished.“But drunken louts are people too.”  Milo whined.“Yeah, party people have rights. Just because we like to live at night and lost items mysteriously wind up in our possession doesn’t mean we don’t play an important role in society.”“Don’t go justifying his statements, we have to stick together and present a unified front or else peewee will catch on and our plans will be exposed.” Ladinya hissed.“Huh?” Milo shrugged.“Quiet, we’re almost there.  Let me do the talking.” Ladinya said as if nothing had happened.</blockquote>

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