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Roshan smiles to see that the girl is in good condition, then blinks up at the old woman's ignoring of her. She clears her throat and stands on tiptoe, but comes short of waving her hand to get the old woman's attention, at least.
"Yes! My friend has a gift for you! That bottle! But we also have medicine, and Ollystra Zadrian presents her regards. May we come in, ma'am?"
"Ahh yes I see. And a good vintage." The old woman snatches the bottle from Faeria's hands. "Medicine from Ollystra of the Shinning Star. Oh what a nice lady she is."
She looks the gnome up and down. "You may come in dearies, but only for a minute I am very busy as you can see." She waves her hand in the direction of the numerous kids in cats running around the house. "Make sure to wipe your dirty feet before you come in."
You can spot broken blood vessels in the eyes and
nose, shaky hands, glassy eyes, and a fine sheen of sweat
on the woman.
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Roshan frowns at the appearance of the old woman, but thanks her kindly for the time as she slips inside with one last 'stay' to Bagheera. Roshan dutifully wipes her feet before entering.
Roshan asks where the medicine should be set down-- on the hopes she might be able to put there herself, and check what sort of other supplies are there for the children's injuries. She asks one child if everyone gets sick often and whether they use a lot of medicine.
As the group moves up the small set of stairs leading to the front door of the house.”Oh, my! There are a lot of you.” She gives the group a puzzled look. ”Why does it take so many Pathfinders to deliver this small package?” As Kagar, Fellstone and Theoduin move to come in the house she begins to close the door a little using it a protection. ”Would you men wait outside please. My house it full as it is.”
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Kagar cocks a brow. "We are not merely Pathfinders. We are of the Silver Crusade. Those who give you supplies. You should not be so ungracious." With that, he enters the house.
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Fellstone gave a shrug at woman suggestion that they wait outside and was about to step back into the courtyard when he remembered that they were here not only to deliver the medicine but also to look for anything suspicious. Asking the three of them to wait outside might be construed as suspicious.
"We're small, don't take up much space." he says, eyeing the woman and not stopping from entering the building. "Well, excepting for Kagar but with Faeria sitting on his shoulders it saves space."
As the two monks push there way thru the doorway. "Well if you insist!" She gives the Half-Orc and Dwarf a disapproving look.
You do not notice anything other about her then she has the look of an alcoholic. You do notice a half empty bottle of liquor in the sitting room.
”Her dearie, just give it to me I’ll put it away.”
After your question of what she does with the medicine. The old woman huff’s with impatience. ”The sick are keep upstairs so they don’t the rest of the children sick.” You can hear coughing and wheezing coming from the stairwell just outside of the sitting room.
She leads the group, minus Theodiun and Hugo who are still outside, to a comfortable sitting room just off the main entry. She shoo's off any cats and kids in the room. "Please take a seat. I will get us some tea." She turns to walks to the kitchen, which you can just see thru a archway to the back of the house mumbling something to herself and shaking her head.
"Half-Orc's and Dwarves have no manners! Can't believe Ollysta sends a dirty little gnome to deliver my medicine."
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Kagar shakes his head at the woman's mutterings. "Given her manner, she's xenophobic and given to much alcohol. Not truly anything dire. Just annoying traits. I should like to speak with the ailing children. Leave you to this woman."
If no one objects, Kagar will excuse himself while Baltwin is in the kitchen to head upstairs, following the sounds of the coughing.
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Roshan blinks upwards at Faeria patting her hair into place, or possibly out of it, really. "...yes?" she says uncertainly.
She murmurs quietly, "I don't think she wants us to talk to the children... that seems funny, to me. Maybe someone can hold her attention while others try and ask a few questions of the little ones?"
Hugo tries to talk with the boys but they are a little scared of the weird looking dwarf. "Yeah, Auntie is alright." One of the boys says and goes back to the game of marbles trying to ignore the dwarf.
You slip up stairs as Auntie Baltwin is in the kitchen and quickly search the upstairs finding a hidden stash of curatives from three different charities.
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Not as much as a closet full, but enough to be suspicious of why she needs more when she has this much.
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Roshan tries to sidle out of Auntie's notice and looks for any child that might be by his or herself.
If she finds one, she gives him an impish grin. "Wanna see a magic trick?"
Colored balls of purple light flow upward from the gnome's hands, and flicker around the room accordingly.
"You like it here?" Roshan asks as she 'juggles' the little globes of light.
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Fellstone watches as the others all sneak away to do their various investigations. "Looks like it's up to me to distract the old woman then." he grumbles.
The dwarf walks back into the kitchen. "Pardon me, Ma'am. Is there anything that I can do to help with the tea? Our human...er...friend Faeria can be a bit particular with her teas."
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Theoduin will go into the kitchen.
"I will take a glass of tea now. I am all of a sudden thirsty"
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As Fellstone and Theoduin distract the old hag in the kitchen, Roshan sneaks off with Faeria right behind her. The gnome finds a child to talk to easily but scares the poor little boy and it takes everything just to prevent him from screaming out loud.
The old woman looks at the dwarf and large human man. "Here take the place settings into the sitting room I will be back out in a second." A few moments later you hear a whistling of a pot then foot steps of the old woman making her way around the kitchen.
Auntie Baltwin slowly walks out of the kitchen behind Fellstone and Theoduin bellowing at them as she does. "Watch out!! Those cups and plates are very old. Put them down here not over there!"
The old woman takes a seat with her cup of tea half full and tops it off from the bottle you gave her. "I hope this is as good as you say." She takes a sip puts her cup down then stares at the Pathfinders and says. "So what is the real reason you come to my house today? Surely not to have tea?" She has a crafty twinkle in her eye like she is ready for a battle of wits with the group.
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His mind is racing, um duh duh duh um well um duh. After a moment he speaks up " Because I was told to?" he says while looking at the others
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The old woman nearly spits out here tea at Faeria's blunt statement. "Crook? How so?"
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Faeria looks about at everyone else a bit confused. "Oh! You mean me. Um, I don't know. I mean you always seemed nice to me when I was little and living on the streets as a little girl. You let all your kids out to play every day in the streets so I had plenty of friends--well not exactly friends but.... You drink a lot of tea, and like cats, and can tell good people from bad just by looking at 'em. So I guess everything's okay."