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As night falls, the outdoor activities draw to a close. Villagers and visitors alike retire to taverns and inns to continue the celebrations around warm, glowing hearths where beer and conviviality flow freely. The inn has gotten busier even for the short time you have been here. Its standing room only, and it also has gotten harder to hear each other talk in you normal tones......
Peitor uses his active prestigitation spell to slide four cards out onto the table, one in front of each player. For himself, he deals the Brass Dwarf, for Desna, The Forge, for Artemis, The Wanderer, and for Erelle,The Paladin.
Peitor laughs a little. " Well dear lady, what connects us is quite simple. Our futures are connected by the ability to overcome a future danger,( he points to his card), strength through great diversity ( he points to Desna's card), the ability to find something of worth in what at first appears worthless (Artemis' card), and by standing strong in the face of adversity ( the card in front of Erelle). In short dear lady, we few, we happy few, are about to be heroes to someone. A bastion of strength for those without any... the rock in the middle of a rushing river of evil...or in plain common, adventurers about to go on an adventure.
Peitor, winks, smiles and orders another drink.
Artemis is a liitle taken aback by the reading, but still raises an eyebrow skeptically at Peitor's reading.
"Yes what adventure could possibly draw the interest of four such as ourselves?"
Heh, I am sure we will find out soon my friend.
Erelle smiles a little. "Interesting. And if it is true, then things might become more interesting still."
The wizard takes a sip from her wine glass thoughtfully.
Desna, love, you already had a reading today, and I just did one for the group of us. You can't tempt fate love.
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The night winds down to a close as you all get to know each other over many drinks. There is hardly any room in town to stay so you all just decide to crash in the common area of the inn like many others who have drunk far too much tonight. As you get up a lovely female dressed in simple farmers clothes starts to yell at an man who appears like he's had too much to drink and is making unwanted advances on the women. She slaps him in the face which brings on a drunken rage from the man who gets up and roughly pushes her down, which brings others to the women's defence. The once peaceful inn's bar has now turned into a full blown drunken battle field. There is no room for an easy exit. The drunken man who started the whole thing gets pushed back into your table knocking over your drinks and takes a swing at Artemis who was actually trying to help the man up. He misses by inches but is loading up for another swing. His two friends are moving his direction to help their friend...........
Peitor grips his harrow deck tight and casts charm person on the biggest burliest man in range (aside from his newfound friends).
Peitor rolls a 13 for initiative and 23 for concentration.
As chaos breaks out in the bar all of a sudden, Erelle tries to back off from the drunken man at the table, but finds nowhere to go. Having been travelling, the offensive spells that she does have prepared are not ones she would want to use in a bar brawl unless she absolutely had to - they did use lethal force, afterall, intended for bandits and monsters..
Clutching her staff defensively, the wizard nods in agreement with Desna.
"Yes.. we've done nothing to you." The barn owl on her shoulder shuffles uneasily from foot to foot, unhappy to be in here. This time, Erelle's feelings match his.
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Desna yells out at the men to try and get things under control but they are to drunk to listen to what she is saying, the drunken rage having taken control over them it seems. Both of the friends jump into the fray, one making an attack on Peiter with his bare knuckles but misses, his mind deciving him where Peiter actually is standing. At the same time the other man takes a swing at Erelle and connects, hitting her in the chin and knocking her back into her seat, the owl takes flight to get out of the way. Peiter waves his arms and mouths something in an harsh language, his spell goes off but the man who hit Erelle shakes his head and still seems intent on doing harm to your friends. The big male drunk takes a punch at Artemis swinging wide of the mark as Artemis just moves to the side a bit to avoid the blow.
The female who was at the start of this whole fight is now where to be seen at the moment, the chaos of the brawl making it hard to see anything but the person trying to hit you.......
Artemis sees one of the men hit Erelle and his face takes on a hard edge. Having no mercy for a man who would hit a woman, he reaches over and plucks up his Quarterstaff, taking a swing at the man that attempted to hit him, but keeping his eye on the man who callously attacked Erelle.
Attack vs. Drunk #1. (1d20+5=11)
Damage. (1d6+1=3)
Peitor rolls 18 for initiative; he attempts to cast prestigitation to make his eyes glow (concentration 15) so he can bluff the attacker that he is a demonic creature ( bluff 13). He starts speaking nonsense in a harsh voice to add to the effect and clenching his hands in such a way to give the impression that claws are about to burst forth from his fingertips.
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In his anger at seeing the thug hit Erelle, Artemis takes a swing at him with his quarterstaff, his anger gets in the way as his attack flys over the man's head. The man who Artemis attacked tries to take a punch at him but misses as he ducks under the quarterstaff that is flying over his head. The other man steps back out of the way of both attacks and almost trips over a chair behind him. He pushes the chair out of the way as he sees a demonic creature in front of him speaking in some harsh language he does not understand, he turns to run and runs into another combatant who pushes him to the ground. The drunk man sees Desna and takes a swing at her but misses. Erelle is just getting back up from her fall.
Somewhat shocked at being hit by someone she was trying to talk calmly to, Erelle takes a brief moment to recover before attempting to rise to her feet again. Fortunately, the wizard managed to keep a hold of her staff.
" Dominus infernum quod sinctus est! Diaboluarum hunc mortus est.
Artemis glares at the man and says, "leave now and there will be no more trouble for you. Stay and you and your friends will wake up in a prison cell in chains."
Peitor wishes to aid other with Artemis' intimidation attempt by using his prestigitation to continue to make his eyes flare and send slight wisps of wind through his black hair, to give the impression it has a life of it's own.
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The room is slowly clearing out a little as some of the fights have moved out the door and into the street. Artemis's threat to the drunk man can be heard around the room and some of the fights even stop. The man trembles at this plus the demonic figure standing next to Artemis scares him to take his leave, running out the door with his friend as fast as they can. You see the women who started it all on their heels. The third man takes flight also, trying to head out the back way. You can now here the city guard breaking up fights in the street. Upon hearing the guard shouting the rest of the room stops fighting altogether.
Artemis glares at the men as they scurry away, then turns to Erelle, a look of concern in his eyes.
"Are you alright my dear? Did that thug hurt you much? I have some minor healing abilities and it would be my pleasure to assist you if I can."
Erelle shakes her head, brushing off her clothes a little. "I'm fine. I didn't expect him to knock me over like that, but I'm not hurt. But thank you." She smiles at Artemis and the rest of the group, before looking up for her familiar. "Serne?" she calls to the barn owl above. "Come on, it's ok now." The wizard attempts to coax her familiar down from the ceiling of the tavern.
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With the fight at its end, the guards come into the tavern and tell everyone it might be a good idea to go to bed. They seem to be making an order not a suggestion to all the inn folk. You can see everyone starting to make their way to the door to go home or up to their rooms in the inn. All the guards leave except one who keeps an eye on everyone still in the inn. The inn keeper and his helpers start the cleaning up process, cleaning up spilled drinks, broken glass, tables and chairs. The inn keeper notices your group while sweeping as you stand there. You better do as the guard says you don't want to end up in jail for the night folks. He moves on with his sweeping.....
Eyeing the women, Peitor says " Well, I am off to my wagon then. It is a warm and safe place my darlings if you care to join me. Ta. "
Eyeing Peior's attempt with a raised eyebrow, Artemis instead suggests that they try to get some rooms at an inn and asks the innkeeper where they might be able to find somewhere to stay.
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The inn keeper looks up from his sweeping and addresses the group as Peitor heads out the door, alone, all his attemps with the ladies come to no avail, he says I have two rooms you can have, the ladies will have to share of course. It will be one gold each and you get breakfast in the morning, served until 10 bells. Your lucky, the fight left some rooms available, no payment no room. So do you want the rooms?
Artemis glances at the ladies before saying, "certainly my good man, that sounds like an excellent suggestion." Artemis takes 3gp from his belt pouch anf hands it to the inkeeper. Taking the keys from the man, he hands one to Erelle and escorts both of them to their room, before retiring to his for some well deserved sleep. Before going to bed for the night he offers a prayer to Desna for their luck tonight in avoiding any problems from the fight.
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The inn keeper takes the coins with a grunt. He sets aside his broom and gets the keys to both rooms handing them to Artemis. Second floor rooms 2c and 2d. Your have to go out the back there and take the outside steps up, watch your step its pretty dark out there. He grabs up his broom again grumbling about the mess and begins to sweep.
Erelle glances at Peitor, a little bemused by his offer. She shakes her head. "Thank you, but I'm not sure that would really be suitable.."
As Artemis discusses rooms with the innkeep, Erelle feels a soft whoosh of air as her familiar begins to silently descend from the ceiling. The owl lands on her shoulder and ruffles his wings, more than a little put out from the events of the evening.
"There. See? It's alright now," the wizard says to him, attempting to soothe him somewhat. She finds him a treat from one of her belt pouches and offers it to him as Artemis hands her the key.
"Oh, thank you. Here, I can give you some gold for that.." She offers him a couple of gold coins in exchange for the key.
"Oh, thank you. Here, I can give you some gold for that.." She offers him a couple of gold coins in exchange for the key.
Artemis looks at the coins and shakes his head with a grin on his face.
"That's not necessary, it's my pleasure."
Peitor locks himself into his wagon, sipping wine and singing a lilting Varisian tune for the memories of his family.
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The night goes by uneventful and you all get a good nights rest until early morning when you are waken up by shouts from outside the inn. You can hear a panic in their voices, they seem troubled, many voices talking all at once. There is a lot of commotion going on downstairs in the inn too....
Peitor, you wake up to the same disturbance while sleeping in your wagon. You peek outside and can see what must be the whole town congregated around the town Square.....
Peitor has seen too many alarmed crowds turn to angry mobs in the past. He stays put and tries to take 20 on a spot check to see what is going on. Whatever it is, he is determined to not give them a Varisian to lay blame upon.
Artemis wakes up and says his morning prayers to Desna, then goes over to the window to see if he can see what the commotion is about. After that he heads over to the girl's room and knocks on the door, waiting for Erelle to answer so he can inform her of what is going on outside. As they make their was downstairs for some breakfast, they are struck by a similar commotion in the common room. He tries to head over to the bar to ask the innkepper what is going on.
As dawn breaks Erelle's sleep is disturbed by the commotion going on outside. Sitting up sleepily, she rubs at her eyes before padding over to the window and peeking outside. Just as she is doing so, there is a knock at the door.
Moving over to the door, she opens it to see Artemis there. The wizard will nod to him as he talks about the commotion, having heard it herself.
She will ask him for a few moments so that she and Desna can ready themselves, and then head downstairs with him once they are ready.
Having been up for hours now, Firefly descends the stairs to check out what all the commotion is about. She tucks a small notebook into her empty arrow quiver that hangs on her hip.
Her hair cascades freely down her back and ends at her waist, fiery red hair with accents of blond and gold, catch the morning light it seems to vibrate like a wall of shimmering heat. She wrangles it into a ponytail and ties it back with golden ribbons.
The Elven girl wears, over a short sleeved cotton shirt, a gleaming suit of mithral armor, fashioned from what looks like tiny leaves that overlap each other. Wrapped around her left wrist is a black leather wristband, embedded in the bracer is a silver holy symbol. An image of the sun, with some strange language etched around it shaped like clouds. Besides her tight, form fitting black pants, and her thigh high leather boots she seems unarmed.
She walks with a confidence of someone not needing a weapon however, almost as she could talk - or fight, her way out of a situation.
Her eyes however reflect a very benign being, a warm shade of Amber, they sparkle in the morning light with energy and vibrancy.
Waving off any offers for breakfast she seems very interested in what interrupted her morning rituals.
She wanders over to get a better look from the doorway before venturing outside. Pulling out a stick of Cinnamon she playfully moves it back and forth inside her mouth with her tongue while she tries to sneak a peek at the commotion.
As Artemis heads over to the innkeeper while he waits for Erelle, he notices a beutiful fiery haied elven woman step out the front door. He notes the look of a warrior about her and gives an appreciative nod as she glances his way before she leaves.
"On second thought, it might be safer in here." Firefly pauses and decides to just watch from the doorway.
"Anyone know what all the commotion is about?" She asks to anyone in ear shot.
he notices a beutiful fiery haied elven woman
Peitor strains to hear or see something of the commotion. ( He rolls a 5 and 4 respectively, so...yeah).