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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1697830" data-attributes="member: 18837">As Accalon recovers and removes his armor, Brie looks at him and barks “What the hell are you doing here?” but then she backs off a bit, eyeing Modrin who is currently occupied with the sofa.  He moves it out into the hallway, then he says “I need to move this furniture out of the hallway, it’s going to block our efforts to get water up here.”  He heaves the sofa on his back, apparently quite strong, and moves it to the stairs leading down, then drops it over the stair’s railing to the foyer below.  At the same time Beatrice knocks on doors, and gets people to leave the rooms they’re in.  But at one point, she looks down the hall to the entrance to the voyeur closet, and then at Brie.  Modrin is preoccupied with the bed, but Brie just shakes her head no, slightly, at Bea.  Accalon considers the importance of getting people out of the voyeur closet, but decides the room next door, where the fire might have already spread, is more vital.  The doorknob to it reveals no heat, and the only sounds within are clearly two people who don’t know what’s going on.  He opens the door and sees a young whore (one he hasn’t met previously) and a client on the bed, the man on top her and using enough force that she isn’t likely enjoying it.  Above them, on the wall shared with the room on fire, is a large oil painting depicting a man and a woman in a loving embrace, juxtaposing the scene on the bed.  The man apparently thinks the same way Brie does, yelling “What the hell are you disturbing us for?”In the forest, Gwyn listens as this newcomer talks to Alicia.  “I think that apple would really make you feel better.  Everyone can use a fresh fruit, once a day.  But I’ll come down and share your fire.”  The hairy dwarf climbs down the tree very easily; apparently climbing trees is something she does often.  As she approaches, Alicia notices a couple things about her.  Most of the brown hair covering her body is just very long hair from her head, but there’s still some that looks like it comes from her face, and groin, and armpits.  She is wearing some simple animal skins beneath all that hair.  The other thing Alicia notices is the smell… this dwarf smells like she has never bathed a day in her life.  Now that she’s on the ground, even Gwyn in the tent can smell her.  Alicia can take note of one other thing; birds are suddenly singing in the trees overhead, and it's only just now she realizes there had been no sounds of birds just a minute before.The dwarf sits by the fire, and takes out another apple from within her hair, and takes a bite.  She says “I suppose it was you who damaged my wicker man?  You say you’re nice, but that wasn’t nice at all.  But I can forgive.  If you tell me something.  What ruins are you headed for, do you know?”At the edge of the city, Lydia and Sunedilar circle around, avoiding the festival grounds.  But while it is still in sight, they see a group of men approaching the festival workers.  Many of these men are stumbling, apparently drunk, and most have weapons out and are armored.  Lydia notices when one man stumbles, he sort of trips a little, then his foot hits a rock and he in a drunken state, he should fall on his face.  But instead he easily regains his footing, looking quite sober as he does so.  She gets the impression his inebriated state is a hoax.  When the men reach the festival workers, they start generally picking fights with them, pushing them over, calling them names (that can’t be heard from this distance), and tearing down boards on their stands and platforms.[Lydia rolled a default Sense Motive of 16+2=18, although she probably doesn’t care anything about this and I presume will move on.  I can’t do the meeting with Aligor at least until Fangor responds to my last Aligor-related post.]</blockquote>

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