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"It is going forward, isn't it?"
"Yes"
"You said, 'we must be on our way'. You are here to tell me that the plan is on, are you not?
"Yes"
"You will be taking me out of the city along with my spouse, Taffrid, and my two children, will you not?"
"Yes"
"Is it time to leave now?"
"Yes"
"Shall I gather them all together?"
"Yes"
Beezhul answers Daffrid's somewhat redundant questions immediately, nodding her head with her tongue sticking out, but smiling.
"There are others, too. You and your family are the First" she looks this way, then that...
Beezhul answers Daffrid's somewhat redundant questions immediately, nodding her head with her tongue sticking out, but smiling.
"There are others, too. You and your family are the First" she looks this way, then that...
Professor Chaverly recoils and backs away a bit, trying to avoid any spittle from the kholo's wet tongue. "Good. Good." She repeats to herself redundantly.
She walks over to a shelf and retrieves a small chest. "There is the matter of payment, then?" Setting the chest down gently on her office desk, Professor Chaverly opens it carefully to present its contents. Opening it up, she reveals a gold nodule aeon stone and a scroll. "These are magical items." she explains, "An aeon stone and a scroll containing an air bubble spell. I trust that it is sufficient to satisfy our end of the obligation."
"You are also more than welcome to take any of the contents of my office library," she adds, pointing to several shelves filled with codex, scrolls, and books. "I have no desire to haul them with me, but you may find them to be of value. As for me, I certainly won't be needing them anymore."
You locate a scroll that had slipped between the pages within one of the textbooks.
You recognize the textbooks and treatises in professor's office library to be woefully out-of-date and likely not of much value.
You recognize the textbooks and treatises in Daffrid's office library to be woefully out-of-date and likely not of much value.
You spot a large, rocky form standing near the open window, which appears to be humanoid!
Then something catches his eye out the window. "There is someone or something out there," he whispers.
"Someone out there?!" Professor Chaverly cries out in concern. "Were you followed by the Emerald Guard?"
The woman rushes to the window to have a look and spies the large, rocky humanoid, which begins backing away from the window.
"Oh, that," The professor says, her voice dripping with recognition and disdain. "That is a stone giant. The city is full of them. It calls itself, 'Seddothrum'. It is a pest, but mostly harmless I suppose. Too stupid to do anyone harm. I've told it repeatedly to stay away from here, but it continues to come around, especially when the children are on campus."
"A minor nuisance,"[/b] she concludes. "Simply pay it no mind and, hopefully, it will wander away on its own."
"Now, let us finalize our plans, shall we? Are we to leave with you now? Is there a ship waiting to take us out of the city?" The professor inquires.
A picture of Seddothrum is now on Slides.
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Beezhul had not noticed the giant by the window. When it is explained to her that he is there, she backs away, cautiously. Did he overhear their conversation? Will he tell the Emerald Guard!?
She smiles at him, toothily and nervously. Then braces for more of Daffrid's ruthless questioning.
"Now, let us finalize our plans, shall we?"
"Yes"
"Are we to leave with you now?"
"Yes"
"Is there a ship waiting to take us out of the city?"
"Yes"
Stunned from her mind, the exact details the Professor seeks. Our kholo hero remembers the other 4 stops they have to make, and that they have only a couple of hours to do it before curfew, and that the ship should be there before their permits expire, but, those exact details currently elude her at the moment.
When the conversation turns, she suggests that maybe they pay Yuleg a visit next at the Rockfish Inn. And she feels her stomach grumble... She is so hungry that she might consider payment in fish even though explicitly told not to...