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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 1269571" data-attributes="member: 15470">Issue #1: The Laughing Ogre. Episode 6Dawn comes on the first Taniday of Charder.  Since we were awake all night, we decide to sleep through the day. We plan to sleep at the edge of the woods, keeping a watch on the tower, and see what happens on the next day. Stone and Fergus McAllister take the first watch and see nothing. Goldpetal and Paks take the second watch. Chuck and Miriel have the third. Nothing much happens. We do occasionally see two figures coming out, walking around, having a smoke, and using the outdoor facilities, but they never stray far from the tower. The day passes. At evening, we discuss what to try next.  Chuck asks, “Should we just attack them?”“No,” Fergus says. “We shouldn’t attack them. They have squatters’ rights. They were here first.”“But they’re bandits,” Stone insists. “We don’t know that,” Fergus says. “They haven’t done anything that we’ve seen.”Stone says, “If they attack us when we're just looking around, then we're justified in defending ourselves.”Chuck agrees with him. “I’m with Stone,” he asserts. The discussion is getting nowhere. “What about Miriel’s suggestion,” Paks says, “of making signal lights to draw them out?”“What did we agree to do?” asks Fergus, ignoring her.“We agreed to investigate the tower,” Goldpetal says. He has kept an impassive face through the discussion, not taking either side, and concentrating on the interior of the woods, although none of us can see anything of interest there.“What constitutes investigation?” demands Fergus. “We didn't agree to clear bandits from the tower. Our agreement with Fox was just to investigate the lights.”Chuck says, “I’d like to clear bandits from the tower.”“Me too,” says Stone.Miriel agrees. “I’ll go along to clear the tower.”Stone adds, “If they're nice guys, I'll say ‘I'm sorry for beatin’ ya up’.” Fergus shakes his head, turning away in disgust.Chuck suggests, “We could sneak up to the top of the tower, climbing the rubble, and see if we can get down from the top. This might let us get a good look at what is going on inside the tower.”“I don't like the idea of sneaking around,” says Paks with a shake of her head. “I want to try luring them out.”Fergus agrees with her. “I don’t think we should go sneaking about either, and I won't go in with weapons out.”It seems as though we’ve reached an impasse, until Chuck says, “Okay. How about this? Stone and I climb the tower, while Paks and Miriel wait, hiding, below.”Goldpetal says, “I’ll come with you.”Fergus says, “Fine,” in a bit of a huff. His body language makes it clear that he is frustrated with the decision. “I’ll wait with Paks.”.</blockquote>

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