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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1599214" data-attributes="member: 18837">Gwyn approaches the front double doors, listening carefully but the sounds coming from within the building are very faint.  He hears something moving around, very light footfalls perhaps, but nothing more.  It might be nothing more than a rodent or two that made it’s way inside, but it’s impossible to tell if its something small near the door, or larger and farther inside.  T’aria sneaks up behind him, very quietly, and sees nothing outside that looks threatening, besides themselves, of course.  She hears the same movement inside, once she comes close, but the lightness of the noise and the possible echos the building can produce make her just as unsure where it’s coming from or what it is.  [Two badly rolled Listen checks][Should have mentioned in the previous post: yes, Accalon just barely made his Listen check on the last whispered conversation.]In the dark closet, Loni nods her head, her hand gently squeezing Accalon’s arm as she kisses his neck, showing her faith in the warrior.  Accalon sees Aeweth go to the whore Heliah, and whisper some sort of comforting words but can’t hear them.  The girl seems to calm down a bit [Diplomacy rolled 6+12 = 18], although she tenses a little as Ezuvial once again casts a spell.  Magic energy forms at his finger tips, then gently flows from the man to the whore.  She starts to smile, and say “Oh, you’re so…” but then her eyes grow wide with fright.  “What did you do?!?” she yells. “What did you try to do to me?  I felt… oh god, that wasn’t me!”  She grabs Aeweth by her arm and says to her emphatically “He’s the one!  He’s the one who took the others!”  She then leaps from the bed, rushes to the door and opens it, trying to get away.[BTW, darn NPC rolled 20 on her saving throw <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=":)" />  I’m assuming Aeweth doesn’t make any Attack of Opportunity against her.  Otherwise, I’ll change my descriptions here a bit.]Ezuvial wastes no time, rushing to the door and slamming it shut before she can leave.  He says “You are going nowhere!  Not yet."  His anger at her resistance feels like a palpable force in the room.  Even Accalon and Loni can feel it, the anger sending shivers throughout their bodies.  Aeweth feels the anger too, but resists the unnatural fear it seems to cause, perhaps because this man, if he is that, has always had that genuinely kind smile.  Ezuvial calms a bit, and continues talking to the whore.  "I believe I paid for our time together, and that should be enough for you.  At least until I teach you otherwise.”  The girl looks terrified and backs away from him.  He says, “Now.  This “he’s the one” stuff.  I take that to mean Brie is on to me.  I suspected as much with one of her new girls so obviously armed, and so hideously evil.”  He turns to Aeweth and says “Faleri, I need some answers now.  I won’t hurt you or the girls.  But I need to know.  How many am I dealing with?  And what are your allies planning?”  He draws a long sword, waiting for an answer.[Everyone got Will saves against the effect described above.  The NPCs and Accalon (Rolled 11+3=14, DC 15 needed) failed it, Aeweth succeeded (rolled 12+6=18).  Those who failed are at -2 to attacks, AC, and saves]</blockquote>

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