As they crowded into Thurston’s room, Runa replied to Sarro’s question about Mad Masher. “Just what that fight promoter Burgo said about him earlier, that Mad Masher used to be his headlining fighter until he ran off with a woman. If Chancellor Chubby-Cheeks is claiming Mad Masher is making a comeback, then apparently Masher is working for someone else now.” Runa shrugs, but her eyes flash with delight, as though she’s working a puzzle and loving it. “Or maybe there’s something even sneakier and more subverted going on.”
Runa glances to where Thurston is doing his best to intimidate the halfing brothers. She rolls her eyes and opens her mouth as if to tell him to cool off. Then she gives another little shrug and closes her mouth without saying anything. Sitting back on her heels, she crosses her arms and watches the proceedings with an amused smile.
Seeing that this matter is resolved and that Thurston is taking the halflings away, Seldor is going back to bed. "Well if we're done with this wonderful experience, I'll be going back to bed. Hopefully we'll be able to make it to dawn without anyone doing something crazy."
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I start pacing back and forth in the room. “Yeah yeah yeah,” I say to Thurston. “He offered us a job in the bar. We get there and he’s completely naked! He tried attacking us!” I continue my pacing. “I don’t know what you expected us to do, Mr Noble. Why don’t you go let him **** you! ****!” I punch the wall. “It wasn’t our fault!” I turn to Thurston, “you should have just let me kill him..... he’s so drunk he won’t even remember this shit tomorrow!” I walk closer to Thurston, “half that money is mine by the way.....”
I turn to Runa. “And what is that smirk for! I was sent by the doctor for a reason. You need me!” I knock over a chair. “****! You should have just let me kill him!”
I start looking around the room for the nearest window.
The paladin looks at his sister before answering the mad halfling.
“ First of all. You could say “No, thanks but no” and walk away. I don’t buy Ammon. That poor fat man can’t be a danger for one of you even if you are asleep, much less with your brother at your side. “ when he takes a step towards him he points at the halfling with the hammer. “No more steps closer little friend. I’ll buy you a drink once this is finished but you will not see a gold piece of my money”
Once the halfling stop yelling he says in a very calm voice.
”Listen boys. I know that you are used to be by yoursleves, without any kind of support or help. But we are a team now. And we need both of you to complete our mission. But we wouldn’t do it if you are arrested for stealing every person that cross your path. Focus on the task at hand. The reward is more that you will obtain for robbering a dozen Chancellors! You got lucky that it was us who opened that door and not the guard or the Chancellor’s bodyguards, you will be arrested, or worse. We are just a few hours away to really start our mission. Can we go to sleep and tomorrow we should pretend that we take you both under custody, hands tied and so, and we should leave before dawn, so the Chancellor doesn’t see us and doesn’t get any ideas to ask us for guard him in the path. Can we have the rest of the night at peace? “
Once all is said and done, and the party goes to their rooms Thurston will stop his sister.
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Ammom
”Yeah sure. Peace and quiet huh?” I grab a mug off the table in the room and launch it through the window. “You have enough of my money to pay the tavern owner to fix this.” I head toward the window and rake out the rest of the glass with my dagger. “I’ll be back tomorrow morning. I have some business to take care of tonight.” I make my way out the window and down to ground level. I hide in the shadows of the buildings.
Zotar watched his brothers display and realized he hadn't changed a bit, and if nothing else had only become more...Ammom. He turned back to Thurston
"My apologies for my brother, he has chosen to walk a life that not many of us can understand I'm sure. He told the truth so far as I know, the man offered us a job, and when we arrive propositioned us for sex. It escalated from there. I can understand your disdain for my brothers actions, but please don't judge him too harshly, he is doing his best and I am sure by the end of this will have proved to be very useful." Zotar looked over to Runa briefly before returning his gaze to Thurston, giving a small bow he said, "Thank you for de escalating the situation and preventing any bloodshed" and then turned around to return to his room. He was embarrassed by how things had gotten out of hand so quickly, but he hoped the group would see this indiscretion as a small mishap and move on.
”I must be honest Zotar “ says the paladin, grabing the chair threw by Ammon and putting some order to his room “ I have a hard time to believe that you both are so naive to not having guessing the intentions of that man calling you at this hour of the night to his private chambers. My guess is that your brother had in mind stealing from him from the beginning. But neither of you thought he can start yelling instead of cow and drop to his knees. But is not just this event, he seems to be angry all the time and doesn’t seem to have a real... team spirit. I am afraid that he is not reliable to this mission where we need coordination, wits and discretion. We “ he points to his sister “ could make up a diversion staying alive in the pits competition as long as Thor gives us strenght, but it’s you and your brother who must go in, find the gem and go out without nobody noticing it. And I am afraid that he will start stealing all in the place and even run away with the gem. We are going there to recover a stolen item, not to steal things that doesn’t belong to us“ his look is stern “ If we cannot be sure of him I said we take our chances and count only on you. “
When Thurston speaks of Thor giving them strength, Runa's smirk turns sour. With a sharpness that is not typical of her behavior so far, Runa says to Thurston, "You're asking him to turn on his brother. Is that really an attitude you want to be espousing?"
To Zotar, Runa offers a wry smile and a shrug. "I know a thing or two about having a brother whose behavior and beliefs don't always align with your own. Loki helped me to find my own path, but it takes some effort to find ways to coexist with family, sometimes. At any rate, I personally don't care if Ammom or anyone else pilfers a few extra shinies. It's his methods and specifically his penchant for being noticed that worry me. Thurston brings up some valid concerns that I and I'm guessing a few others of our party share."
Runa glances around to see who else has crowded into Thurston's room with them and realizes the full party isn't currently present.
"But that's probably something we should discuss in the morning... Later in the morning, once the sun is actually up. When everyone is around to have their say?"
Zotar had stopped briefly to hear Thurston and Runa out, it was the first time she had spoken to him, and of Loki no doubt. He turned back and gave a small smile and a head nod of understanding and consideration, "I will speak with him Thurston, I can't guarantee he won't be a problem again as I am not his keeper, but I can guarantee I will do my best to convince him not to be" he then gave one more nod, and then left the room heading back to his room.
”I am not saying that.. I am saying that maybe he should talk him to stay away while we take care of this. Then he can come with us to reclaim his reward as well, as long as he doesn’t try to kill every naked or vulnerable man he crosses. I am trying, really hard, to have an open mind here...” he smiles to his sister.
To Zotar he adds “ Neither I ask you to be his keeper, but you are the only one of us who can reach him. And make him see that he is beign and added problem to a complicated situation insted of part of the solution. “ when he sees that Zotar is going to go out he says “ Sorry friend but I don’t think that you leaving here by your own foot is wise. In his anger perhaps your brother has given us a good explanation why you both are not in chains. Do you feel that you can go out the same way he did? I guess that we can say tomorrow that you both escaped our custody. What do you say Runa? Do you think you can convice of that to anyone that ask us?”
In response to Thurston's question, Runa shrugs. "We can certainly try. It's not a bad idea. Although I wonder if it might be better for we 'bounty hunters' to be gone before anyone has second thoughts about our claims and comes to ask follow-up questions. Would've been easier if we still had two 'prisoners' to make a show of marching out of the inn."
In the morning Karl meets you all with the horses and you head to Baron Orock's compound.It's an easy ride on a well worn road through fields of barley, hops, and wheat. By late afternoon you approach the compound. A large walled keep with a single tower dominates the landscape but the arena catches your eyes. A carnival atmosphere surrounds the arena. Wagons and tents stretch for acres. Vendors and performers of all types are here conducting business. The barkers struggle to shout above a band of dwarves playing a dwarven polka. A young man approaches you excitedly. "Come! Come! Master Burgo has a tent, he meets you there!"
Despite her apparent lackadaisical approach to life, Runa was still relieved when getting out of the Wayby Inn proved less difficult than she and Thurston had feared. As their party approached the Baron's compound and Burgo's messenger boy ran up shouting, Runa reined in her horse and glanced around at the others.
"Guess that's our cue." Runa nodded toward Thurston and Sarro. "I guess the rest of you have the tougher job of figuring out how to use us being in the arena to your advantage. Loki's luck to you all."
"Be discret about your errand and do not kill anyone over a gem, no matter how valuable it could be." he says to the rest and follows his sister towards Burgo's tent.
"Good luck" he says to the rest of the party as he follows Thurston and Runa towards the tent. Looking around he takes the surroundings in, now sure how this was going to work but enjoying the new experience of it. Noticing no one really close enough to hear he whispers to the siblings "How should we do this, assuming we're in the position to, should we win quick and clean or make it slower and put some showmanship into it?"
RUNA
As they crowded into Thurston’s room, Runa replied to Sarro’s question about Mad Masher. “Just what that fight promoter Burgo said about him earlier, that Mad Masher used to be his headlining fighter until he ran off with a woman. If Chancellor Chubby-Cheeks is claiming Mad Masher is making a comeback, then apparently Masher is working for someone else now.” Runa shrugs, but her eyes flash with delight, as though she’s working a puzzle and loving it. “Or maybe there’s something even sneakier and more subverted going on.”
Runa glances to where Thurston is doing his best to intimidate the halfing brothers. She rolls her eyes and opens her mouth as if to tell him to cool off. Then she gives another little shrug and closes her mouth without saying anything. Sitting back on her heels, she crosses her arms and watches the proceedings with an amused smile.
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Seldor
Seeing that this matter is resolved and that Thurston is taking the halflings away, Seldor is going back to bed. "Well if we're done with this wonderful experience, I'll be going back to bed. Hopefully we'll be able to make it to dawn without anyone doing something crazy."
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Ammom
I start pacing back and forth in the room. “Yeah yeah yeah,” I say to Thurston. “He offered us a job in the bar. We get there and he’s completely naked! He tried attacking us!” I continue my pacing. “I don’t know what you expected us to do, Mr Noble. Why don’t you go let him **** you! ****!” I punch the wall. “It wasn’t our fault!” I turn to Thurston, “you should have just let me kill him..... he’s so drunk he won’t even remember this shit tomorrow!” I walk closer to Thurston, “half that money is mine by the way.....”
I turn to Runa. “And what is that smirk for! I was sent by the doctor for a reason. You need me!” I knock over a chair. “****! You should have just let me kill him!”
I start looking around the room for the nearest window.
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Thurston
The paladin looks at his sister before answering the mad halfling.
“ First of all. You could say “No, thanks but no” and walk away. I don’t buy Ammon. That poor fat man can’t be a danger for one of you even if you are asleep, much less with your brother at your side. “ when he takes a step towards him he points at the halfling with the hammer. “No more steps closer little friend. I’ll buy you a drink once this is finished but you will not see a gold piece of my money”
Once the halfling stop yelling he says in a very calm voice.
”Listen boys. I know that you are used to be by yoursleves, without any kind of support or help. But we are a team now. And we need both of you to complete our mission. But we wouldn’t do it if you are arrested for stealing every person that cross your path. Focus on the task at hand. The reward is more that you will obtain for robbering a dozen Chancellors! You got lucky that it was us who opened that door and not the guard or the Chancellor’s bodyguards, you will be arrested, or worse. We are just a few hours away to really start our mission. Can we go to sleep and tomorrow we should pretend that we take you both under custody, hands tied and so, and we should leave before dawn, so the Chancellor doesn’t see us and doesn’t get any ideas to ask us for guard him in the path. Can we have the rest of the night at peace? “
Once all is said and done, and the party goes to their rooms Thurston will stop his sister.
”Hey sis can I talk you for a minute?”
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Ammom
”Yeah sure. Peace and quiet huh?” I grab a mug off the table in the room and launch it through the window. “You have enough of my money to pay the tavern owner to fix this.” I head toward the window and rake out the rest of the glass with my dagger. “I’ll be back tomorrow morning. I have some business to take care of tonight.” I make my way out the window and down to ground level. I hide in the shadows of the buildings.
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I slink off and make bed in the stables.
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Once he has left Thurston turns to his brother.
”He is going to be a problem, doesn’t he?”
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Zotar
Zotar watched his brothers display and realized he hadn't changed a bit, and if nothing else had only become more...Ammom. He turned back to Thurston
"My apologies for my brother, he has chosen to walk a life that not many of us can understand I'm sure. He told the truth so far as I know, the man offered us a job, and when we arrive propositioned us for sex. It escalated from there. I can understand your disdain for my brothers actions, but please don't judge him too harshly, he is doing his best and I am sure by the end of this will have proved to be very useful." Zotar looked over to Runa briefly before returning his gaze to Thurston, giving a small bow he said, "Thank you for de escalating the situation and preventing any bloodshed" and then turned around to return to his room. He was embarrassed by how things had gotten out of hand so quickly, but he hoped the group would see this indiscretion as a small mishap and move on.
Thurston
”I must be honest Zotar “ says the paladin, grabing the chair threw by Ammon and putting some order to his room “ I have a hard time to believe that you both are so naive to not having guessing the intentions of that man calling you at this hour of the night to his private chambers. My guess is that your brother had in mind stealing from him from the beginning. But neither of you thought he can start yelling instead of cow and drop to his knees. But is not just this event, he seems to be angry all the time and doesn’t seem to have a real... team spirit. I am afraid that he is not reliable to this mission where we need coordination, wits and discretion. We “ he points to his sister “ could make up a diversion staying alive in the pits competition as long as Thor gives us strenght, but it’s you and your brother who must go in, find the gem and go out without nobody noticing it. And I am afraid that he will start stealing all in the place and even run away with the gem. We are going there to recover a stolen item, not to steal things that doesn’t belong to us“ his look is stern “ If we cannot be sure of him I said we take our chances and count only on you. “
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RUNA
When Thurston speaks of Thor giving them strength, Runa's smirk turns sour. With a sharpness that is not typical of her behavior so far, Runa says to Thurston, "You're asking him to turn on his brother. Is that really an attitude you want to be espousing?"
To Zotar, Runa offers a wry smile and a shrug. "I know a thing or two about having a brother whose behavior and beliefs don't always align with your own. Loki helped me to find my own path, but it takes some effort to find ways to coexist with family, sometimes. At any rate, I personally don't care if Ammom or anyone else pilfers a few extra shinies. It's his methods and specifically his penchant for being noticed that worry me. Thurston brings up some valid concerns that I and I'm guessing a few others of our party share."
Runa glances around to see who else has crowded into Thurston's room with them and realizes the full party isn't currently present.
"But that's probably something we should discuss in the morning... Later in the morning, once the sun is actually up. When everyone is around to have their say?"
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Zotar
Zotar had stopped briefly to hear Thurston and Runa out, it was the first time she had spoken to him, and of Loki no doubt. He turned back and gave a small smile and a head nod of understanding and consideration, "I will speak with him Thurston, I can't guarantee he won't be a problem again as I am not his keeper, but I can guarantee I will do my best to convince him not to be" he then gave one more nod, and then left the room heading back to his room.
Thurston
”I am not saying that.. I am saying that maybe he should talk him to stay away while we take care of this. Then he can come with us to reclaim his reward as well, as long as he doesn’t try to kill every naked or vulnerable man he crosses. I am trying, really hard, to have an open mind here...” he smiles to his sister.
To Zotar he adds “ Neither I ask you to be his keeper, but you are the only one of us who can reach him. And make him see that he is beign and added problem to a complicated situation insted of part of the solution. “ when he sees that Zotar is going to go out he says “ Sorry friend but I don’t think that you leaving here by your own foot is wise. In his anger perhaps your brother has given us a good explanation why you both are not in chains. Do you feel that you can go out the same way he did? I guess that we can say tomorrow that you both escaped our custody. What do you say Runa? Do you think you can convice of that to anyone that ask us?”
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Sarro
"Well I hope the excitement is done for the night." Sarro says. Sarro is going to bed.
RUNA
In response to Thurston's question, Runa shrugs. "We can certainly try. It's not a bad idea. Although I wonder if it might be better for we 'bounty hunters' to be gone before anyone has second thoughts about our claims and comes to ask follow-up questions. Would've been easier if we still had two 'prisoners' to make a show of marching out of the inn."
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Thurston
“Yes that was my thinking before he stormed out the window “ he tries to smile.
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Zotar
Zotar stops again, "That's not a bad point, either way is fine by me"
In the morning Karl meets you all with the horses and you head to Baron Orock's compound.It's an easy ride on a well worn road through fields of barley, hops, and wheat. By late afternoon you approach the compound. A large walled keep with a single tower dominates the landscape but the arena catches your eyes. A carnival atmosphere surrounds the arena. Wagons and tents stretch for acres. Vendors and performers of all types are here conducting business. The barkers struggle to shout above a band of dwarves playing a dwarven polka. A young man approaches you excitedly. "Come! Come! Master Burgo has a tent, he meets you there!"
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RUNA
Despite her apparent lackadaisical approach to life, Runa was still relieved when getting out of the Wayby Inn proved less difficult than she and Thurston had feared. As their party approached the Baron's compound and Burgo's messenger boy ran up shouting, Runa reined in her horse and glanced around at the others.
"Guess that's our cue." Runa nodded toward Thurston and Sarro. "I guess the rest of you have the tougher job of figuring out how to use us being in the arena to your advantage. Loki's luck to you all."
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Thurston
"Be discret about your errand and do not kill anyone over a gem, no matter how valuable it could be." he says to the rest and follows his sister towards Burgo's tent.
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Sarro
"Good luck" he says to the rest of the party as he follows Thurston and Runa towards the tent. Looking around he takes the surroundings in, now sure how this was going to work but enjoying the new experience of it. Noticing no one really close enough to hear he whispers to the siblings "How should we do this, assuming we're in the position to, should we win quick and clean or make it slower and put some showmanship into it?"
Thuston
"In case we can delay our victories... that could give them more time..."
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