Gulaf's page

"Aya. All broken up here. He cut the rope. You best get down fast."

"You have a rope? It's another 40 feet down."

<Gulaf pulls out a piece of paper and writes on it, then tossing it down the hole. As everyone climbs onto the platform:>

"All is vell. Adil Vill expect you below and guide you through."

"The temple of Iomedae is not veak, but it is small in Katheer. There you can also go."

"Either way, I can get you into the bazaar directly through the tunnels, and you will need someone to vatch you animals while you are there, they cannot ascend the Pillar, unless they grow vings."

"This Gulaf can do."

"You vill be safe in the tunnels, and in the bazaar the throng is so dense that it too should keep you... relatively safe."

<Gulaf barks some orders at his men in Kelish.>
Aref:

"I have no experience vith bodiless demons. Virgin eating abominations summoned from beyond, yes. Gulaf has wetted his pants as a grown man before sights that drive philosophers instantly to madness. But now I am too old. Follow me. You should go to the pillar."

He speaks of the pillar of Sarenrae, where paladins of the Dawnflower train. The two towers of the temple rest on a pillar of stone that rises up in the middle of the city from the very center of the great bazaar. Of course, you can go anywhere you want.... Also, Bohdan is here somewhere waiting for you. In the temple district there is also a small temple of Iomedae where he might be found, not far from the pillar, as well as a second temple of Sarenrae that you needn't climb up to.

<Gulaf stares at Hoktsu. smiling and laughing, but his smiles fades as he considers the staccato explanation.>

"A demon. Bodiless. A possessor. Well then it is not just legend and tale tales."

<Gulaf reaches into his robe and looks around.>

"So you seek entrance to the city."

...

"This demon tracks you now?"

"Ok, vat do you really want. You are not traders. From the slashes and bloodstains on your robes you are men of violence, yet not evil, or my vards would have signaled me."

"So why have you come to Gulaf?"

"My friend there," pointing to Aref, "needs some advice."

<The Deceiver looks over the emporium's inventory>

"Do you have books on summoning here?"

"Books of exotic origins, certainly, but none expressly on summoning. But now I have just unpacked a crate of tomes of distant lore and found a text concerning the elemental planes if you can read Yuka," he says, drawing the u out long. A language of which you've never heard.

Sir! Hello to you and well met.

<Gulaf casts a suspicious eye from Jon to Aref, eyeing his robes carefully.>

"Greetings mage and friends. I am Gulaf. What business have you in my emporium?"

"HAHAHAHA! And deaf as posts!"

<A robust man but not nearly as portly as Draka strides out through the archway and looks you over.>

"Varisians with sunburn. Ragged desert robes. Booty. Scant coin but a rich tale I'm sure!"

(Before he leaves)

"Deal with it. Things will get worse."

"The orc seems fine. If he dies it's because of that yelllow s*~+ you've given him, Book."

While working the doctor mutters to Jon, "you should have stayed in Tian, gong niu.... Xianzai ni you da wenti."

The doctor is bent over the new older woman.

"This is the one they raped, Righty?"