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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1772834" data-attributes="member: 18837">Flashback, Quentin’s CubbyholeThe beggar says “Ivan, mistress.  My name’s Ivan.”  He almost jumps when he’s told to sheath his dagger, and fumbles with it, putting it away. “I don’t got nothing to say to the guard.  You don’t have to give me nightmares, I won’t say nothin’ to nobody, unless… I guess, if someone scares me more than you done.  But no one’s got reason to… I’m nobody, nothing.  Besides… yer scarier than that demon I saw as a kid… since yer pretty too.  Pretty shouldn’t be dangerous, and since you are… well, that makes it worse.”  Even if T’aria doesn’t follow his logic, he seems to follow his orders well, taking off when he’s told to leave.[I’m assuming T’aria would now go inside; if not, I’ll edit this next part out.]Remembering she was told to drop Shadow’s name here [I can’t remember if Shadow actually said that, but she was supposed to have done <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=":)" /> ], the half-demon walks up to Cubbyhole’s porch and enters through a rickety door.  Inside, the lobby looks nearly as bad as the outside, with a stained carpet and some tacky paintings of fruit and clowns.  Actually, the clown painting looks almost evil, the men in the picture looking like they're leering at her where ever she moves in the lobby.  At a desk sits a fat, sweaty man reading a book.  Before T’aria can speak to him, she feels something at her foot, and looking down, notices a twelve inch long rat trying to run away from her.Current, near Max’s Martial Training SchoolAlicia grabs the goodies, and makes for the nearest alley, but the guard takes a shot at her as she does so.  No longer gaining cover from the cart, the half-ogre is lucky as the crossbow bolt whizzes past her arm.  Alicia runs for a bit, then realizes she’s still camouflaged, and might do better moving stealthily.  She hides a bit, next to some bushes, to see if the guard is following, but he doesn’t seem to be; unless of course he’s hiding better than she is.[So, what would Alicia do next?  No plan was made to reunite with Girdra, unfortunately, although she did mention having business with other people in town before she wants to go with the party to the ruins.  Would Alicia just head back to the campsite on her own?  Go somewhere else?]</blockquote>

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