I walk up to her and offer my hand.

Just as she is about to grab Ophiwalyn's hand, the boy steps in. "Hey, back off! This is my girlfriend you as***le!" He then gives Ophiwalyn a withering touch

Attack: 12 Damage:21

I'm really confused, so I stand back and put my hands behind my head and say, " Hey, we're friendly's. "

"Look, We want no part of your girlfriend, we already have women at home, and there'd be hell to pay if we were messing around with young ghost women. please just follow us, we're going to your mother to lift the curse from this house." to Ophiwalyn i say "please leave, I can handle this myself"

"Leave?" He cackles "No, I'm not leaving. See you f***ers." He then passes through the walls and into the next room "Sorry about him, he gets paranoid easily, since he was killed and eaten by a cannibal."

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"Leave?" He cackles "No, I'm not leaving. See you f***ers." He then passes through the walls and into the next room "Sorry about him, he gets paranoid easily, since he was killed and eaten by a cannibal."

 Halec says, "Quite understandable, that's got to put one in quite a poor state of mind towards their fellow man, being killed and eaten by a cannibal and whatnot.  Will you at least return to your mother to pay a social call? Perhaps you will go to the next world, not, she could certainly benefit from a visit.  Also, have you seen a ruby shard about the house that fell from the sky some time recently?"

"I haven't seen any rubies around here... I should get going anyways, ciao." She leaves through the wall on the right, the piano stops playing.

All the sudden, the trail on the map changes, it leads from the ballroom into a slightly smaller room.

I was talking to ophilawyn, not the dude when i said leave...

I follow the map to the other room.

"Magically changing map.  Sure, why not," Halec says, attempting to go with the flow of things, and taking a swig from his flask.  

"lay off the sauce, man," I say to halec, "warrior is a hinderance rather than a help to us at this time. You must find another way to cope with trouble, like singing, or conversing, or sharpening your weapons" after a short pause I add "If you are incapacitated due to your "habit," and die, I get the mule, let that spur you to be alert and at 100% fighting capacity."

Halec looks sourly at the dwarf. “I am fully cognis...cognitive... aware of myself, and my surroundings, Anthony. My paradigm has been shattered, as of late. The world has become strange as has my life. I must press on for the sake of all lives in this region, and I’ve found a perfectly predictable coping mechanism, the ‘sauce’ as it were. I’ll see to Helen, and to the safety of everyone in Snakeskin Valley. I assure you, when it comes to my crossbow skills my hand is steady even if I were blotto, as they say. I have more than adequate personal constitution to enjoy a nip to take the edge off, without losing my faculties.”

Halec sighs, adding, “Now let’s go talk to some more members of this ghost family until we find the shard of the relic we came here for in the first place.”

When you make it to the room, the door is locked. On the other side, you hear someone yelling "Go away, I don't want to talk!"

"I believe your mother sent us," Halec says.  "Please, hear us out."  Persuasion: 5

"I don't care, go away!" He says, now more agitated.

"Alright, I was really only helping your mother to find the Ruby Snowflake shards.  Tell you what, child, point out the shard location or aid me in finding it, and I'll leave you to your, err, whatever it is you were doing," Halec offers.  

Chazrael takes out one of his arrows and holds it out to the child. "You can have this arrow if you tell us where the shard is."

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Chazrael takes out one of his arrows and holds it out to the child. "You can have this arrow if you tell us where the shard is."

 "The famous ranger Chazrael is offering you one of his prized arrows, child!  This is amazing!  He might even sign it if you're fortunate.  We must have that shard piece, however.  Large, ruby, flew in the house recently, we believe," Halec says.  "Any idea where that is?"

"Chazrael who? Fine, I'll go, but only because your bugging the c**p out of me" He flies through the door, popping out between Chazrael and Halec, then flying through the wall adjacent to the door. He moved too fast for you to get any of his physical features, so none of you really know what he looked like.

On the map, the trail just fades away.

I grab halec's flask, and empty it onto the floor. Sleight of hand check: 11 "we're done here!" I shout "we don't need a drunken B**tard, we need you to help but if you're drunk, you will only harm us."