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Greeves' eyes widen as Desmond pulls out his dagger and he squirms as the blade slices through his tongue. He sputters blood for a few seconds before Desmond heals him. Looking down at his hands, Desmond notices that he only managed to take out a piece of Greeves' tongue, leaving the man clacking and clicking as he tries to form words with his new tongue.

@Des: sorry, you needed a 15 to cleanly remove it.

DC?

Desmond slips one of the guards 20 gold and both guards convene in the corner before walking out the door. Greeves calls out to them but they are already gone. Greeves looks suspiciously at Desmond and backs away into the corner.

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Why did they just leave? Who exactly are you people?

"Was hopin' someone would come ransom him, but seems you folks were my best chance at that and I lost. He's not much use to me anymore anyways.

Anja wins the first hand fair and square.

During the second deal both Anja and Reiko successfully cheat without Greeves noticing and Reiko pulls off a winning hand, assisted by her card shuffle.

"Well I'll be damned. S'pose you two know what you're doin' 'round the poker table. Fine, if ya wants to know more 'bout ol' Xarcious, go talk t' him yerself. I been keeping him in my office over there. Fer safe keepin'."

Greeves points to the door leading to the room in the lower right-hand corner of the map.

It doesn't look like you guys want to fight Greeves so you can ignore the Roll20 map for now unless things take an ugly turn.

"All right, folks. The game's five-card draw. Best two out of three." Greeves says as he deals out the cards to all at the table.

If you have Profession (gambler), you can use that. I'm guessing no one has it, so I'll let you use Bluff instead. High score wins this hand. There will be three hands dealt in total so if you want to make all three rolls at once you can do that.

Reiko: if you want to Sleight of Hand to try to "alter the odds", you can make that check as well, opposed by Greeves' and his guards' Perception. If you are successful, I'll give a bonus to your Bluff roll.

Ezrek: double checked, you are correct. But the second check was a request for information. We'll just go with it.

Greeves' Bluff: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

Guard 1's Bluff: 1d20 ⇒ 4

Guard 2's Bluff: 1d20 ⇒ 3

Greeves grins widely and sits back down at the table, motioning his men to join him.

"Now this is a proposition I can 'ppreciate. Sit down, you two. I deal."

Sorry, when he asked if you wanted to make a bet he wasn't talking about cards. He's a bookie.

Ezrek Diplomacy aid: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Shan Diplomacy: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Diplomacy total=17

Greeves smiles as he looks around at everyone. "Ah, so you're here to talk about Xarcious? Might be I know where Xarcious is. And might be I'd be willin' to ransom him. . . for a price. Ya see, Xarcious owes me a debt.

So how's 50 gold sound? And you're nice people, so I'll discount what you've already given me. So let's make it 35 gold and I'll tell you how you can talk to Xarcious yourself."

Anja successfully jams the lock on the back door.

Greeves picks up the gold piece on the table and taps it against the wood before pocketing it.

Sure, I's gots information, plenty o' information. What's it that yer lookin' fer? Perhaps with a few more of these - Greeves jingles the coins in his pocket - I can give you what you need.

Attitude successfully improved one level. Continue making checks if you want to improve it more. Either way, he's a broker and does nothing without making a coin or two.

As Ezrek steps through the door, the three men sitting at the table lay down their cards. Two of the men are wearing chain shirts and longswords and appear to be hired bodyguards. Creeley Greeves looks up from the table. He is wearing a greataxe and a breastplate.

Ahoy! What I can I do yas fer? Here t'place a bet? Somethin' else I c'n git fer ya?

Here is a map of Greeves' shop.