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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1692967" data-attributes="member: 18837">Beatrice scoffs a bit at Accalon’s mention of her prince, “Hah.  If he was the type to come here, he’s probably not the man I envisioned anyway.  Besides, I’m hardly the prettiest woman here.  But this life is… acceptable, if not what I dreamt of.”Accalon’s troubled look is mirrored in Bea’s face as he asks about Madame Brie’s methods.  “This environment is perfectly safe, as long as you don’t cross Brie.  The stuff she’s done to some girls is just…”, she trails off, not finishing.  After a moment she says, “And what do you think upsets her the most?  Do you think it might be her girls talking behind her back, trying to get some noble good-intentioned warrior to change her lot in life?  You really shouldn’t worry about it.  Just worry about your next adventure, whenever and wherever that might be.”  She looks a little upset with herself, for the harshness in her words, then smiles and adds "I'm sorry.  Like I said, I know you're good-intentioned.  And noble.  And very handsome.  Hmmm... you're sure you're not a prince, right?"[Accalon rolled 13+9=22 on Diplomacy, vs Brie's Intimidate roll of... um, yeah <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  ]At Boone’s, the stand-off continues.  Boone says to Aligor, “Damn it, dwarf, that urgrosh is worth 10000 gold, at least.  There’s trust and then there’s 10000 gold.  This is the same potion I’ve used in many dealings with people, and it’s always inspired them to give me what’s owed me.  And as for Hex coming, well exactly who caused that?  And I’d rather have that weapon in my own hands when he does.  And you running out of town at the first sign of trouble isn’t a good sign that you’re dependable either.  So you have three options.  Accept my ‘deal-enforcer’, give me back my urgrosh, or try to kill me.  But with how hurt you and your mutt are, I think I can take you .  And if I’m wrong, well, come two months from now, I think I’ll be avenged, because you don’t even know what the antidote looks like.  Don’t make this into an ego thing, it’s just business.   This bickering isn’t healthy.  You have a problem with my honor here, it’s easiest just to give me back my weapon.”He continues to stand with short sword in hand, but not actually pointing it in a threatening manner.  But that isn’t stopping Bane from picking up on Aligor’s hostility and growling at the shop owner.[Aligor rolled 18+5=23 on Initimidate, but Boone made a high character-level roll to resist.  Plus, Diplomacy would probably have worked better in this situation.]</blockquote>

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