Tianchao Wangguo Chapter 1: Calm before the storm

[Gez]

« If they avoid attacking travelers, our guide will be safer with us than alone. »

 

[Ariakor]

"Hopefully", the innkeeper says with a sigh. " But on the other hand you would have a chance to observe these bandits firsthand then, wouldn't you? But they probably won't come out of the wooodwork just for a grop of travellers, so you should indeed have no problems."

"If you want to go back to the village with us," you can hear the young man named Mao say to you from a nearby table, "we'd really be happy for your company. We wanted to head home soon anyways, because the travelling merchants seem to avoid the area of late and we haven't been able to sell our wares for some days now. We'll just load up and wait for you, would that be ok?"

 

[Gez]

« Seems a good idea. Provide me with the directions, and I'll scout ahead, while you'll travel with the Magistrate and the Enlightened Ones. We'll all leave as soon as you are ready. »

 

[Ariakor]

"Sure, no problem, mylady." says the villager. "We shoud be ready in about half an hour."

After having finished their breakfast, the peasants begin to load their carts outside the inn, leaving you alone with the innkeeper and his daughters.

 

[Gez]

Lin Xu waits for the colleagues fortune sent to her to wake up, so that she can explain to them what has been decided.

 

[Seeten]

Lanyu also pays the 1 silver.

She rises before dawn, interested in the potential for intrigue, or action, or something exciting, she waits in the common room, watching for the others from yesterday to begin filtering down.

 

[Rhialto]

Pan Chou thanks his hosts for the meal and waits for his companions to arrive.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Guchiko spends the first hour of dawn preparing her magic for today's confrontation. Finally she rises and partakes of rice and tea, readying her items so that she is prepared when their guide returns.*

 

[Gez]

If you decide to have been there before, Lin Xu obviously do not wait for you.

 

[Nephtys]

Jian Guo greets the others when she enters the common room, but seems fairly subdued. The faint but irritating sensation of wrongness troughout the night has left her a bit wearied. Her assertiveness from last evening seems to have vanished.