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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 191062" data-attributes="member: 1679">When Halflings go Wild (con't)Nikki and Ladinya turned and looked at each other.  “I cast sanctuary. You cast fly, I run in there and get him, then toss him to you, you fly him out.”  Nikki said, Ladinya nodded, and took off into the air as Nikki fixed her shield around her arm and ran at Milo in a crouch, screaming “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!”The half-orc thought about the various people moving around for an agonizing moment.  He lifted the crossbow to the flying lady and then back down onto the armored one going after the short guy.  He really didn’t want to shoot her, but he pulled the trigger anyway.Nikki saw the slight movement in the orc’s arm muscles, and started to dive for the ground.  “Oh sh---.”  The right arm of the crossbow snapped clean off the stock and snapped around, smashing the orc against the side of his head.  Even a thick orcish skull couldn’t deflect all of the strike’s power, and the orc fell to the ground, greenish blood leaking from his ear.  The gnome looked at his fallen partner’s body.  “Back to the drawing board with that one.  Maybe I better get there now.”  He darted off down an alley and over the wall at the end.Nikki reached Milo and grabbed him before he could react, and tossed him to Ladinya hovering twenty feet overhead.  Ladinya grabbed him by the collar of his mithril shirt, and flew down the street, Nikki clanking behind and Milo shouting curses up at Ladinya.  They landed a block away.“What the hell was that about?”  Milo demanded, rearranging his bandoleers of axes.  “Tossing me out of there just when things were about to get good.  I was ready to unleash some serious whoop-ass on them suckers.”“Them suckers were about to spread you out all over Sator Square.”  Ladinya chided.“No, I could see the fatal flaw in the bow.  I knew it would break.”Nikki clanked up behind them and wheezed, “Lair. We saved. Your butt.  I really.  Have to. Practice.  Running. More.”  She leaned on her knees, and spat a long loogie onto the pavement.  “Gah.  Maybe we should get rooms here."  She pointed up at the sign of a pair of kidneys wearing a crown.  “The Kyngs Kidnies.  Sounds good.”At about 7:00 in the evening, Kit walked into the room with a bag over her shoulder.  She spotted the Non-Gender Specific People in Tights sitting at a table pushed over into the corner, waved, and walked over.“Hey folks.”  She said, plopping down in a chair and signaling the barmaid for another ale.  “How was your day.  I got presents for you, and a little something for me.”  She dumped four knobby wax objects on the table.“Hey, wax noses, Neato.” Ladinya said, spinning hers around in her hands.  Milo stuck his on upside down, put his hands in his ears, and made faces at them.“And look at this.”  Kit pulled a strange looking light crossbow out of her bag and held it up to her shoulder.  “It’s a Kheckler Mageworks R-15, thautamaurgical, semi-automatic, magazine feed, bayonet equipped, civilian version of the latest military crossbows that just came out two days ago.  This one was the last one in stock, and cost three times list price, but it was worth it.”“Kit, how exactly did you find us?”  Nikki asked.“Just followed the rumors.  Its not often a cleric and a flying woman pull an angry halfling out of a crowd.”“But if you can find us, then the Watch probably will, and I don’t think that we’re real good friends right now.” Ladinya worried.Kit smiled.  “Don’t worry about that, I gave the watch something-several other things to do tonight.”  She opened her vest and pulled a flask from a concealed pocket, tossing it in the air.“You did what?  Nevermind, we leave now.  Get your cloaks and equipment, we’ll sleep under the stars tonight.”  Ladinya stood up, slammed a couple of gold on the table and rapidly gathered her stuff.  Milo and Nikki followed her lead, leaving Kit standing there bewildered.“That was weird, all I did was put some Dwarfish spirits in their coffee urn.”  She gathered up the noses and the crossbow and followed them out into the street.</blockquote>

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