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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1764921" data-attributes="member: 18837">Flashback, T’aria’s AmbushThe drunken man on his knees looks at his dagger, then at his friend and says “I ain’t never killed no one before.  But yer a demon, I got… I got no choice.”  Although T’aria has no actual mind-affecting powers, this man apparently thinks he’s under the influence of one anyway, as he picks up his dagger and advances on his friend.  While the third man runs for his life and soul, T’aria’s new disciple stabs his friend in the stomach, leaving him bleeding on the ground.  He turns to her, looking at her with blurry drunken eyes,  and says “Did I… did I do it right?”[The ‘leader’ is now unconscious and dying, but not yet dead.  Now I can’t seem to get those bumfight videos out of my head. <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=":)" />  Note: I’m going to delay T’aria’s “current” thread until we’re sure she finds the Inn; since no one’s with her, that won’t hurt anything,  And doing your own thing is absolutely not a problem.]Current, Inside Boone’s AntiquesSunedilar rolls Aligor off Hex’s body, grabs his battered short sword and also a valuable looking ring on his finger and a small money pouch.  The sword doesn’t look particularly valuable, but as he picks it up he feels an odd tingling in his eyes and ears.  He makes his way to the closed door and as he gets there, he notices the shadow of two people in the open door, and the warrior stays low and out of sight.  Two city guards walk in carefully, long swords drawn.  One says “Whoever’s in here, show yourself!”  After no answer, one guard says to the other “I thought all the commotion was at the outskirts of the city?”  The other replies “That might have been a distraction   For a robbery here.  Wait, I think I see something.”Sunedilar gets a bit nervous, but then realizes the guards are moving over to where the 2 corpses and one almost-corpse are.[Sunedilar rolled Hide 17+1=18.  It will require a reasonable Hide/Move Silently to unlock and open the door without them noticing, if that’s what you’re doing next.  Aligor rolls Fortitude check of 13+8=21, still just dying.]Current (later than the Boone fight), near Max’s Martial Training SchoolAlicia eats her dwarf-given nuts and feels a lot better, although still not up to full health.  The guard with a crossbow takes advantage of her being no longer near his ally, and fires, but the quarrel goes over Alicia’s head.  The guard in the sleet storm jumps off his fallen horse into the dry area right next to it, loading his crossbow, while the man she hurt moves his horse back to her and swings his mace, which is deflected a bit by her now toughened bark-like skin.[There was 15 HPs worth of healing nuts left, and you ate them all.  Both the crossbow and mace missed you.  It doesn’t matter much, but when you kill this guard with your next blow, are you going to cleave his horse?  Nothing else adjacent to cleave, unfortunately.][Characters by initiative, damage:Alicia, HPs: 21/262 City Guard, unhurt1 City Guard, hurtBurly man with longsword, dyingMan with crossbow, unhurtMan with gleaming longsword, very hurtGirdra, unhurt]</blockquote>

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