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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1586678" data-attributes="member: 18837">Rusty smiles and says to Aligor, “Ya mean all I had to do was call the guards to git ya out o’here?”  Rusty gives Aligor a little pat on the back; that and the joke are probably the only way the crusty bartender knows to thank the dwarf for possibly saving his skin.  “You aren’t gonna give just one of them a healing potion, are ya?  If you want to wake ‘em up, that’s your business.  I don’t care if they just expire right here, but I wouldn’t wake up just one... he’s bound to be a little heart broken about his brother.  Kinda fittin’ their stupid bloodline endin’ all at once.”  Rusty looks at the map Aligor found.  “Hmmm…. This map ain’t too precise.  Like they knew the places they wanted to go, just didn’t know what streets to take.  The spot in the middle of town is full o’ some of the more run down inns and taverns; nuthin’ there as respectable as my place.  And the other spot, near the palace, that’s where the government buildings are.  The court houses, the city hall, the guards’ barracks, that sort o’ thing.”Rusty steps to the door, looks up and down the street.  “Ain’t no guards in sight, just some punks up the street, so probably a good time for you to go.  I won’t tell the guards you were here… anyway, it’ll keep people from tryin’ anything in here if word gets around I dealt with them myself.”Meanwhile, one of those “punks” down the street is bargaining for his life.  The robed man tells Alev and Sunedilar “C’mon guys, my spell didn’t even hurt you.  Something useful, something useful…” He thinks for a minute, then says “Look, all I got is the job me and my friends are supposed to do next.  We know a building where there’s supposed to be a lot of gold just sitting there.  They just got some money in to pay their employees tomorrow.  That’s why we’re hitting it tonight.  But only me and my friends know where, so allow me to go get them” he takes a step down the street, “and we can all benefit, do this job together.”  In the showroom, the well-dressed man’s hand caresses Lydia’s waist as she rises to go change.  “Do hurry back.  That secret you told me; I believe I’ll require a demonstration before I’ll believe you.”  After the two girls go upstairs, Madame Brie says to the cultured client, “Dear Algernon, it seems you have already made your choice for the evening, and a very good choice indeed.  She is new, but not remotely inexperienced. And what of your friend here, your bodyguard you said?”Algernon says “Oh, Ezuvial’s just here to watch.  Apparently I have enemies I didn’t even know I had”. The bodyguard, now with a much sterner expression since the departure of Aeweth, says “Surely you don’t want me to watch you…” he trails off, not finishing the sentence.  “But of course!   I think it will add to the excitement.  Besides, maybe I’ll need you to pull her off me, if she gets… too aggressive.”  A smile passes Algernon’s lips, as that thought apparently pleases him.  Ezuvial says “Maybe you will need that.  You did notice she had weapons, didn’t you?”  By Algernon’s confused expression, he obviously didn’t.  The bodyguard continues “But she’s no threat to you.  So why don’t I occupy my time while your busy.”  Listening to Accalon, the bodyguard says.  “An appetizer?  That’s a unique way of looking at women.”  The words were pleasant enough, but Accalon senses [Sense Motive Rolled 18+6=24] a bit of hostility.  But he apparently agrees with the idea, moving to sit next to one of the other girls, taking her hand.  Adressing Madame Brie, he says “Would two women be permissible?  This one, and the Boccob disciple who just left.”  Brie explains that will cost extra, but he agrees to the price.  The Madame then excuses herself, saying she’ll check on the girls.  She passes Jovana, one of her girls, who comes into the showroom.  She practically ignores Accalon, looks around, sees Algernon alone and slides up beside him.Algernon says to his bodyguard, “Ho!  Two girls at once?  Surely you’ll have to hurt the feelings of one or the other.  But I have no need for an appetizer.  I suspect the meal will be filling enough.”  He extricates himself from Jovana’s side and then, a thought apparently occurs to the man, and he jumps up, walks over to Accalon, pulls him aside a bit and says, half-whispering, “I just realized.  You must be the one that kept Valasia from greeting me.  So I have to ask… what do you have on Brie that she finally gave her up to you?”In a bedroom upstairs, Madame Brie enters finding Lydia and Aeweth changing.  She analyzes them with her beady goblin eyes, saying “Do you have a plan, here?  I’ve known Algernon for years, but I’m beyond actually trusting anyone.”  Without waiting for a response to her question, she starts pointing out little touch ups they should add to their make up, with her small hands firmly adjusting both girls’ outfits to her suiting.  “Luckily, they both seem to like you even in those awful clothes you were wearing.  Oh, you… “ she says to Aeweth, “you’re even luckier.  You’ll only have to do half the work; that rough one wants another girl to help you.”</blockquote>

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