"Let's try again." She drops another one of Zarine's silvers on 6 again and hers on 12 again.
The young lady leans forward to Key and gives her a flirtatious wink before spinning the head super hard.
Herman places a silver on 10.
While the head is spinning, the young dealer leans over and points to key "Is she with you?"
"She's with me" says Zarine.
"ok ok, relax. she smiles and winks at Key again
Zarine just laughs.
She'll go along with however Key wants to play it (or Herman), but other than that, she just waits to see if anything will happen on the third bet.
"What are you guys in town for" she clears the table and smiles politely
Well, obviously to steal the devil's gold. Isn't everyone?
Standing back and observing Able doesn't talk to anyone, he scans the room looking for any signs of trouble, a habit from his days as a bouncer.
Making sure to always be aware of Fingers and be ready to act on his signal.
Well, obviously to steal the devil's gold. Isn't everyone?
"Not everyone here is for that. Some are here because of the shadow in the sky" she calls last bets
Key smiles at the dealer. "We're with each other." she throws down two more silver again on six and twelve.
Her eyebrow raises when the dealer mentions the shadow in the sky. "Know anything about that? All I know is what I saw. I'm here to keep him," she nods toward Herman, "out of trouble."
"this ones on me" she flicks your coins off and places 2 of her own on six and twelve
I know a little about it.
she spins the head
Zarine almost blurts something out about the shadow, needing to know, but Key has already asked, and it occurs to her that keeping her mouth shut might be smart in this case.
She also thinks (thankfully after she has already stopped herself from babbling) that the dealer probably already saw her standing on the bar earlier. No one in the room could be in doubt of what she's after. So, taking her cue from Key, she plays it cool, and just listens, trusting Key to find out what the dealer knows. It's nice to have someone else I trust around she thinks.
When the dealer spends her own money on Key's last bet, her opinion of the devil-girl goes up a couple of notches, and she regrets her initial dismissiveness. She offers introductions: That's Herman, I'm Zarine, and she's <nodding to Key> Keybella.
Herman let's out a belch, partially hidden behind his hand, before laughing at Keybella's line.
"Sure, sure, keep Ol' Herman outta trouble. Ain't much in this town to get in trouble with, though."
He places another silver down on a random spot.
Zarine almost blurts something out about the shadow, needing to know, but Key has already asked, and it occurs to her that keeping her mouth shut might be smart in this case.
She also thinks (thankfully after she has already stopped herself from babbling) that the dealer probably already saw her standing on the bar earlier. No one in the room could be in doubt of what she's after. So, taking her cue from Key, she plays it cool, and just listens, trusting Key to find out what the dealer knows. It's nice to have someone else I trust around she thinks.
When the dealer spends her own money on Key's last bet, her opinion of the devil-girl goes up a couple of notches, and she regrets her initial dismissiveness. She offers introductions: That's Herman, I'm Zarine, and she's <nodding to Key> Keybella.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Lixy." she clears the board.
"So, when do we win this game or what? Do we just keep dropping coins in the thing forever or do we win ever?"
Herman digs another coin out of his pouch with exaggerated motions, dropping it onto
lixy laughs and spins the head
Soon as the head stops, everyone notices a lady drop couple chips on the ground. A second later a blinding explosion of fireworks erupt out of one of the braziers at the far side of the room.
rounds
Immediately after the fireworks, several men draw their swords and the same lady who dropped her chips shouts loudly “All right, folks! Drop to the ground and don’t try anything stupid and we might let you live!”
Blinded, Zarine can't think of anything she can do to get them out of this, so she drops to the ground. She whispers to the others to make sure everyone is still okay.
Herman, Key, Lixy... everyone okay?
Key ducks. "I'm ok. That light was bright."
Able drops to the floor, waiting for his vision to clear and listening carefully to try and work out where everyone is?
Herman instinctively draws his shield to his arm, dropping into a defensive spot and feeling around for Keybella.
"Key! You okay? Zarine?"
I'm ok. Did that light affect your sight?"
The lady udders a few words and points at the nearest person who isn't blinded. the person screams convinced he is permanently blinded and begins to panic
The thugs start to subdue any guard or person who wasn't blinded.
Meantime, Anyone who isn't blinded sees the chest in the middle of the room shrink to a tiny fraction of what it was.
lixy whispers as softly as she can but enough to be heard "Psst.. come back here behind table"
Key grabs Herman and Zarine's hands and tries to guide them behind the table. "Let's go. I'm not sure we can win this, and it's really not our fight."
Zarine tells Herman she's okay, and then, with Key's help, moves behind the table next to Lixy. She really wants to help take down the bad guys, but she can't do a lot while she is blind.
She probably can't do it this round, what with the checking on others and crawling, but there are 5 rounds to wait out while she's blinded, and so when she can, she thinks Oh! It might not help a lot, but I could make some meteors fall by the treasure chest. Anyone looting it is probably a bad guy. I don't have to see to cast that. All I have to do is think about it.
She focuses and thinks about where the treasure chest was in relation to where she is right now, and then mentally triggers it to happen.
At 1st level, you can summon a rain of tiny meteorites as a standard action to fall in a 5-foot column, 30 feet high, with a range of 30 feet. The meteors inflict 1d4 points of fire damage + 1 per 2 sorcerer levels. A Reflex save negates this damage. The save DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.
If nothing else, at least it will be a distraction so maybe some people can get away from danger thinks Zarine.
Fingers grimaces at this loss in his first hand of Bounders and is about to drop another bet and make his motion for Able to cause a distraction when all hell breaks loose. Acting quickly, he averts his eyes but sees the flash and the dazed looks on the faces of most of the patrons.
When hired muscle starts pushing people around, and then someone has the gall to mess with "his" treasure, Fingers jumps into action.
Drawing his rapier, Fingers gets the drop on the closest thug, stabbing him from behind, in his unseemly way. Trying to drop the foe, before anyone really notices.
Herman does not resist Keybella's guidance, holding his shield at the ready.
"Yeah, got flashed by whatever that thing was. Hope it ain't gonna stay like this, tough to fight if I can't see."
Many of the guards move to start taking stuff from people on the ground. A man emerges from the bathrooms and heads straight for the shrunken chest
Key pulls out her rapier, and readies an attack if an enemy comes next to her.
Zarine thinks about readying burning hands, but luckily she decides not to risk burning the place down while blind. She does drop the dagger from one of her wrist sheaths into her hand though, in case it is needed.
Smiling satisfiedly after dropping the nearest ugly, Fingers spies the treasure that he's been eyeing all night begin to shrink to small size, easy enough to fit into his pocket.
"Oh, no you don't" cries the unscrupulous rogue. "You can't take that, it's mine t' steal!" Rapier still in hand, Fingers rushes across the chaotic floor of the casino making a beeline for the now-shrunken treasure and waving his hands excitedly trying to get Able's attention to aid him. He keeps an eye out for an of the other attackers, avoiding them in his route to the loot.
The young woman sidesteps to the chest, snatches it and begins to make a bee line for the door.
The man next to her points at the cage above and silently mumbles something and suddenly the cage door flys open
Look what you will boys! hahahaahha
the now three thugs begin to steal anything they can get there mits on and begin to head for the door.
Zarine stabs anyone that tries to steal from her, but she is still blind, so she doesn't do anything unless someone accosts her.