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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2863061" data-attributes="member: 7280">"Mistress Juja, do you have any ungents or salves, perhaps a potion you could spare to us for poor Jango if'n we find him hurt terrible?" Nelson begged of the tiny woman with his best "second helpings please" look. Nelson might not have been Mistress Juja's favorite, or even his favorite Luttin child, but he'd certainly spent his requisite hours recuperating from the misadventures common to all children -and more so to Luttin kin- in Mistress Juja's care. Besides, Mistress Juja had the sense to give away sweets for free to tempted children rather than dare them t' plot and sin her pastries into grubby hands. That alone would have made her an icon of his youth, but she was also a fairly generous sort in her own right otherwise. Maybe it was because she had no daughters that could be reasonably appealed to by the village youths. Well, maybe Zan could do it. I'll have to ask him one day. That would be interesting to watch.*****Leaving the rest of the group aside and trusting that he'd meet up with them later Nelson darted across town to the familiar "watering holes" where elder Luttins and other wiser heads more familiar with the lands outside the walls than perhaps most residents of the sleeping fishing village would, on account of certain activities and trade that normally didn't flow from the usually port to coven but was instead considerably more sly, and knocked nervously.In a rush, Nelson spilled the details of the day to old smugglers and ne'er'do'wells, told them to remind his cousin Melmer that he owes Nelson a coin for being the first to see Jina Silversun's naughty bits no matter what the occasion, glossed over his long conversations with the rest of the people involved by saying "And I tried to explain to them where we should come first, but the rest of the town don't have no sense t'all," spent some small time complaining in typical Luttin style about the lack of trust and decency amongst people these days, exhalted himself for using axioms and truisms that several men here taught him, and finally asked what they think of the situation, if they could provide some help with keeping Nelson's own neck from being slit by foreigners and outsiders out to cause trouble with the Lizards, and if anyone would terribly mind if he had one of those exquisite smelling cigars that everyone is smoking.*****"Surely, but most importantly for th'sake of Seawell is that none f'them are Scaled Might, Three Claw, or Dark Eyes, n'those are the Lizards attackin' town...So I guess either n'these are folk they kicked out, are incognito-like, or we've just declared war on another tribe if'n we don't tie this square before the sails whip loose." Nelson frowned, chewing his bottom lip thoughtfully.OOC: Knowledge (local) +6 checks to know more about the situation in general, Bardic knowledge checks +7 for rare trivia that might be pertinent, Knowledge (geography) +6 to fit in where any other tribes would likely have to be at, looking for symbols that might be deciphered with Decipher Script to tie it all together. Plus anything I might have learned from old men playing dominos in the scene I wanted to insert before we left."Thas' ok. Most of the town has trouble admittin' that most f'the time I'm right. I figger  that jus' means it's just twice as sweet when I'm not wrong." Nelson said absentmindedly, clearly not putting his heart into it as he might have otherwise, distracted by the puzzles here at hand but speaking from a sort of Nelson auto-pilot of pithy responses. He sat on his haunches staring out into space in a most disturbing way, slowly chewing on the problem in his mind until the GM supplied him with answers. (<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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