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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 7842690" data-attributes="member: 7015827">The last bout featured the half-orc Gagh, the undefeated champion, versus one Lamish Cooper. Lamish, Stanslav informed the crowd, had struck a deal with House Bleth to be accepted as a guard if he could defeat Gagh in the arena. It appeared that Lamish, a small man armed with a pair of daggers, had no other hope of being hired on, although he was introduced as a skilled master of knives who had hamstrung many an opponent. Gagh's laughing taunts goaded the man into attacking and he came at Gagh with both knives flashing. The large half-orc quickly raised his greatsword and split Lamish from head to waist in one blow, drawing cheers from some and boos from others who had wanted a better fight. Gagh paraded around the arena, grinning and saluting Stanslav with his sword before returning to the gladiator pit. Rahnee and Brok-Tul collected their gambling winnings and discussed Gagh's tactics, while Jokull quietly slipped out of the building, alone.Jokull finally returned to the guest house, a half hour after the others had decamped from the arena. Looking disheveled but with a strange fire in his eye, he tossed a note on the meeting room table, explaining that he had received it from Stanslav after arriving at the Quivering Thumb. The note directed "Josurr" to go alone to a sewer entrance in River Gate, where a "friend" who knew about his personal quest would meet him. Jokull softly said that it was, of course, a trap, and that he had killed five men who attacked him in the sewer.He showed the others a scrap of paper, which apparently was an IOU collectible from someone named Rancel at "the Boot." Jokull was sure the Fire Knives were involved in setting up the trap, which was personally aimed at him. At the urging of Rahnee and Brok-Tul, Jokull explained to the others that he knew they were after him because of “Josurr” - not the random alias of a supposed gladiator, but the name of Jokull's long-dead brother, who had been murdered by the Fire Knives in Cormyr. Rahnee grimly told Jokull that she understood his blood vow, as she had also suffered the violent loss of a brother. She described how Khael Roaringhorn, a priest of Tymora, had been gutted and left in a pool of blood at his own temple. The events of the day having drawn out grim and terrible emotions, Jokull took his leave of the others and all made their way to their rooms, tired from a long night's activities.(Blood calls to blood, and only more blood will satisfy it. --R)</blockquote>

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