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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dscrank" data-source="post: 145201" data-attributes="member: 3017">Pedron[OOC:  Pedron doesn't do that much damage with his rapier.  Either he scored a critical or the thug didn't have much in the way of hitpoints.By the way, I cheated a bit--I was having trouble visualizing the layout of the ambush, so I checked the book for the map.  It'd be nice to have those maps in the future, if possible.]Pedron watches the thug go down, and seeing the blood on his rapier, realizes what he's done.  For a moment, he just stares.  He was in a knife fight once, and both he and the bully who had attacked him were cut up pretty badly, but both of them could walk home afterwards.  That was the most harm he'd ever done to another human being before now.  Compared to that wild fight, this was easy, just aim and thrust, and a man's life is ended.  A thug, true, but most people would think that Pedron wasn't much better.  The thief feels himself beginning to shake and brutally quashes that train of thought.  He's dead, I'm not.  I outplayed him, that's all--he's the one who chose the stakes.  And the game's not done yet.  He wipes his rapier off on his cloak and sheaths it.The one remaining thug is now surrounded, but the beggar was out the door as soon as this mess started.  Pedron leaves the others to deal with the thug and his Power-held comrade and heads into the street to search for the beggar.  If he sees the beggar, he'll follow, trying not be seen.Edit--minor grammatical stuff</blockquote>

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