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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tickleberry" data-source="post: 687314" data-attributes="member: 1565">Hah! Shows what YOU guys know! I am the best at what I do, and you can't stop me!It seems that the reports of my death are TERRIBLY exaggerated. Heh, heh, HEH! Well, things were coming to a head, so it was decided I should drop by and see what I could see at Lilybo's. (Why me?) A carefully planned distraction carried out by the incomparable bard right next door to Lilybo's allowed me my time to check things out, and then it aall went wrong.Lilybo is at best a second rate rogue. Noise traps? Easy trap doors? I almost think its too easy. I check through the chests, and get zapped a couple of times (the noise traps let me get too confident). But hey, what is a potion of cure light for anyway? The map I find is REAL interesting. Maybe a clue to an unwarrented good deed? Maybe. Just maybe. (note: I play my rogues as in it for the fun, but dm dropped clue it might be a further adventure hook, so I had to find a rationale.)I head downstairs, and find PEOPLE. Time to duck out. Then the trap door closes, and then, as I go out an unoccupied bedroom window, I get hit by a hold person! Now the fat's in the fire!These guys ask me where Lilybo is! Like I'd know? Oooh boy, now what? Just as these guys start to get physical, the guard shows up.  First time I've ever been happy to see the clowns (first time they've ever saved ME, I usual save THEM). They haul me off to jail, and the characters I meet there! I thought they must have caught an entire carnival. The crew shows up, and Ahmed is to be my counselor. Now, I recognize several of the "witnesses." I KNOW I won't have anything like a fair trial. So, I ask for a zone of truth. I have absolutely nothing to hide. (Well, I thought so, anyway.) Ahmed gives me such a looook. Was he planning on lying, too?I see that there are several thieves in the crowd, and that someone starts that hideous rumor again about the necromancy. At least I can put paid to THAT old thing. You'd a thought I let a ferret loose in all their drawers. (Not a bad idea, gotta remember that one.)So these guys start talking about lashings, and punishment for things I had absolutely no way of knowing were offenses. Registering? Illegal tools? Say WHAT? I ask for the rest of this farce to be carried out in Judge's chambers. No dice. (Like I should have expected sense from these men?) So I drop the big one on them. We infiltrated the thieves guild, and were trying to bring it down, and THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR RUINING MY COVER!Okay, so now I'd let a DRAGON loose in the hen house.We go in, and the fighting gets brutal. Now, I know my strong suit is NOT combat, so I hang in the protected middle, but they'd had time to prepare before I could mobilize the stupid boredocrats. ( I REALLY hate the "civilized" law structure, they have mice for brains. Look at the laws they pass!)It seems like no time before the mid line becomes the front line, and the good guys are dropping. Some of the fatter ones go invisible, and sneak up on me, in the middle of combat. I'm really hurting, so I fake dead, and go down. Hah! Once the fighting is over (I'd seen Cleo go down, but she's up again, how?) I holler for a medic! Several surprised faces surround me wondering how I'm still alive, and believe me, I am too! Things had gotten REAL interesting in that combat, but the final analysis was that I had survived, by the very skin of my teeth. The adventure continues!</blockquote>

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