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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1691545" data-attributes="member: 18837">At Brie’s, Beatrice brushes her reddish-brown hair from her face, smiles and takes the green lingerie.  “Ah, so you have a fashion sense.  A man of many talents, I see.  That must be what Loni sees in you; sometimes she’s as color-coordinated as a blind half-orc.  And my story?  Fairly typical I guess.  I came here looking for a prince to sweep me off my feet, and instead couldn’t find enough money to keep shoes on them.  Nice ones, anyway.  I made a little money working the streets, and Brie found out and made me an ‘offer’.  I knew what would happen if I said no, and besides, this is a nice clean place to live.  And I really had no friends at all until I started working here.  So it all worked out.  There might be more to my story… but I don’t know you well enough.  Yet.  I assume you’ll be spending a lot of time here to be with Loni.”  She watches Accalon, probably trying to judge his reaction.  “I think it’s sweet.  But if you try to take her from here, Brie’s going to have your head.”She finishes dressing, and then walks back and forth in front of Accalon, quite seductively.  She says “What do you think?  Will I be a distraction?”In the forest, as party members debate who’s going into town, Lydia notices that it seems oddly quiet.  There’s the noise of a breeze rustling tree branches a bit, but that’s all.  No birds singing, no insects chirping.  Perhaps it’s always been like this; she’s not much of a forest person and didn’t really notice until now.  She looks around and sees a few pretty red birds high in a tree, but they aren’t making a sound.At Boone’s shop, Aligor drinks the potion and thinks it tastes kind of stale.  It also doesn’t seem to make him feel much better.  Boone looks a bit worried, and says to Aligor “OK, I’ll get your things for you.  But I have something to tell you.  Before you get upset, remember two things: I have to protect my property, and your not in much shape to fight me, even if I am an old man with a bad arm.  Here’s the thing:  that wasn’t a healing potion I just gave you.  Rather the opposite, really.  It was a kind of poison.  Called Sloth-Slay.  Yeah, it’s a stupid name, but what are you going to do.  Anyway, it’s very slow acting.  A human won’t feel anything for about a month, and it won’t kill him for 2.  For a dwarf, as tough as you, you probably have a lot longer.  Anyway, I have to insure I’ll get either my money or my urgrosh back.  You come back with either, I give you the antidote.  Or give me back the urgrosh now, and I give it to you.  This is just business, Aligor.  I’m still taking a risk; you might get yourself killed out there.  But at least I know you have a good reason to come back.”  He draws his short sword with his good arm. “Now, if you want to get all upset, let’s get this over with.  Otherwise, I’ll go get what you need.  Along with a couple extra healing potions at my expense.”And at the well, ‘Shadow’ seems to look T’aria up and down, obviously studying her.  She says “The boy, my dear boy, has had people stalking him before.”  The black-clad man frowns towards Shadow, apparently upset with what she said for some reason.  She rather deliberately ignores it and says “But I am Shadow, and you can call my friend here Skulker.”  Another frown from the man.  She continues, saying, perhaps sarcastically “And as you can see, I live in a magic well.”She jumps down from the well. “There isn’t much more I can tell you about us.  But I can disappear.  I can also make people disappear.  Sometimes even when they don’t want to.  I’m very good at it.” she says, obviously making a veiled threat.  The man leans in close to her, whispering something, and then she says “You were at the Warrior’s Helm?  I’ve heard a pretty nasty group of people have been staying there.  You wouldn’t be one of them, would you?  Perhaps that’s who you need to hide from.  Or ‘your friend’ Taryn, I believe.”  She smiles.  Then adds “If you are one of them, I’d really like to know, so I can get a message to them.”</blockquote>

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