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“You’ll do no such thing” Durge coming from behind grabs Jaren pulling him back then walks past him and right up to the one eyed man. “Tell me Brent do you love dying so bad that you’ll pick a fight with whatever happens to be near you? You lose your head when you lost your eye?” He speaks calmly but the is anger in his expression. “You’ve still got both your eyes but you must be blind so let me tell ya. THERES A DRAGONBORN!” Brent makes no attempt to remain composed. “Oh? And the Gorthax typically take vacations with Tieflings, and Humans?” Durge —being a dwarf and quite a bit shorter than Brent— grabs him by the shirt and yanks him to the ground “breaks been long enough, get back to work you numbskulls!” He says addressing the red of the men around the fire

 Well that was unexpected. 

Cetar is confused to see this odd dynamic between the group. Best not get involved. All he can muster is 'Would you like to take a look at our wares and courses? They may be highly useful to a group like yourselves! Speaking of which, who may you be?'

At the start of the confrontation Balen was itching to do some mischief. If those men were scared of one dragonborn then how would they feel about two for instance? Hahaha. Though he knew better to just see it play out then rush into things- things he would probably have done if he had been all by himself.

But then at least the conflict subsided over, so he jumps on with Cetar on this and asks, "Yep, like my friend said, we're selling a highly interesting, varied, vast assortment of wares!" Hopefully coaxing to get them to talk by adding a bit of personal detail, he adds, "I'm Simon, and you are?"

The dwarf looks from Cetar to Balen and raises an eyebrow “Durge Hardhammer Chief trade manager of the Sharp Panoply Company. And I don’t do shopping while I’m working, so take your wares somewhere else” then gesturing at Tildrash he says “Take your scaly friend with you. He’s making my labor unproductive” 

Cetar speaks up and tentatively says 'OH! But our wares are unlike any other! We'll only be passing through here once and once only, so if you miss us, all our good deals will be lost!' He nudges his companions and says 'My associates can convince you further, but I hope you give it a think!' Persuasion: 3

Balen looks to Cetar then Jared then back over to Tildrash after Durge says this. It really boils up his blood that he would say this but in his complete and utter shock he says nothing. That's when Cetar nudges him that he blinks and 'wakes' up. "Yesss," he says nearly through a sneer before changing it up towards one more lighthearted, "We're selling all sorts of things! Thing's you've never likely even seen before! Things out of your wildest imaginations!" With a showman-like smile he gestures towards his companions. "Hit it!" 

((Deception: NAT 20 + 4 HAHAH = 24))

Nervous sweat runs down his back because as soon as he said this he had no idea what he actually meant. What where they supposed to show that was so wonderful and so magical?! He flicks a nod over at Jaren and wiggles his fingers, trying with his eyebrows raised to convey: 'The thing! Do the thing! The tiefling magic trick!'

(Oh Jesus Christ, how long have I been gone?!!!! I’m so sorry, I’ve been having to do work so I kinda just lost track of this whole ordeal. Hopefully it’s not too late for me to get back into it, but if not I have full faith you’ll make this thing work Archsage.)

-Big Oopsies

          DuskenShogun

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(Oh Jesus Christ, how long have I been gone?!!!! I’m so sorry, I’ve been having to do work so I kinda just lost track of this whole ordeal. Hopefully it’s not too late for me to get back into it, but if not I have full faith you’ll make this thing work Archsage.)

-Big Oopsies

          DuskenShogun

 ((yo it's all good man! sometimes I dip out and forget to respond too!!! definitely you should rejoin! it wouldn't be the same without you!!! keep on playing! right now the dwarf doesn't like you. too scaly for his tastes smh))

Jaren goes, "Uhhh ok." And casts fire bolt on the fireplace. Then he casts thaumaturgy to turn the flames purple, his eyes white, and make the flames red. He trips as he tries to do the fire bolt, tries to correct it and falls on his butt. (Performance: 1)

Cetar sees Jaren's performance and goes to also participate, but falls a bit flat too. All he can really show off is jazz hands and a strange sort of jig as he showers the group in cherry blossoms and sweet smells from druidcraft. He feels it's a bit of shame that Balen did such a good job convincing these men that they can do something extraordinary when the best they can manage is some poorly performed cantrips that they've probably already seen. [Performance: 4...yeah we're not gonna get much out of this encounter lmao]

Balen winces at Jaren's performance, especially the pratfall. Oh boy. He nervously chuckles at that. "Uh, he was just warming up." He then realizes that's a pun and just shrinks in stature. "Haha... get it?" He just then claps after Jaren is done, hoping to make it look like all part of the act.

'A jig?!' Balen just gets wide-eyed at Cetar's apparent showmanship. "Ah yes, he is a skilled professional dancer of..." The changeling tries to narrate the whole thing with genuineness ('At least he's trying!' He'll give the druid that) but fails to match up as his own astonishment hinders him from doing something more. "Of... the arts?" 

"I- uh."

"Yeah. Smell those sweet blossoms in the air! You know what that means?!" He waves around his hands in the air and if he still had that stick from back at Fungus's he would have twirled it. 'Where am I going with this? Where am I doing with this?'  

"Gah! Um." He picks up three stones from off the ground. "Look at meee....  start to juggle!" He tosses one up then another and then another until they begin to rotate around his arm movements with a circle. Balen opens his mouth agape with this one. He didn't even know he can juggle. "Um. Ta-da?"

((Performance: 9 + 2 = 11))

"You wanna... uh... buy our stuff?"

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 ((yo it's all good man! sometimes I dip out and forget to respond too!!! definitely you should rejoin! it wouldn't be the same without you!!! keep on playing! right now the dwarf doesn't like you. too scaly for his tastes smh))

 (Thanks man, I’m not sure if I should come back into the story just yet. I think it’d be best if I’m just sitting in the background, watching in embarrassment as you all try to scam people.)

[I hope our performances aren't so bad we get attacked.]

Me waiting for the campaign to come back to life

Durge raises an eyebrow to display of ‘talents’ but says nothing as he walks away. A fair amount of the workers also witnessed your advertisements some have looks of mild amusement, others simply go back to work. One man however shouts “Doit ahgin” in a almost unintelligible accent.