Richard
The air was hot and sticky in this room. The air was always hot and sticky. Kaius sat alone in his booth, his eyes transfixed on the full glass of wine in front of him. He hadn't taken a single sip from it, Kaius knew better. The Madman was as known for his drugged wine as he was for his roundness. Kaius hated the atmosphere in here, the stench of sweat and other fluids he tried not to think of pervaded his nose. But when you are hunting a maggot you need to sift through the trash. 

So Kaius sat. The ladies didn't care, he paid for their time and the drinks. They were quite content to have a half hour off their feet and not needing to perform their services. The Madman was smart enough not to drug the drinks of his employees, so they sat, drank wine and did not complain that Kaius just wanted to sit with them and listen. 

As he sat, transfixed on his goblet, a new couple had come in, pursued by a loud ruffian. Kaius smiled, if they had been intent on not being seen they should have asked for a private booth. He listened with moderate curiosity as Mad Manny worked them over. Kaius hated listening to him, but his establishment attracted all kinds of other enticing people. Kaius cod almost sense their uncomfortablility as Lucy buttered them up, inviting them somewhere private.

Kaius knew what would come next. Standing from his table he tipped his two guests and made his way over toward the newcomers
Pamela
Tarias teetered on the verge of getting up and leaving, but as Lucy began undoing the strings at Leanna's chest, he found it was simply impossible, too far gone in the drugged wine, already the latest willing victim of the Mad Lotus. He went to drink from his cup but found it empty. "Yes," He decided rather vapidly. "Yes... Let's find someplace more private..." He declared more loudly, and began struggling to his feet. Leanna wasn't going anywhere until Lucy climbed from her position atop her, but with a mischievous giggle and a final teasing kiss, she did just that, and Lucy and Tarias each provided a hand to Leanna to help her up from the cushioned couch. 

They were about to depart into one of the back rooms when the newcomer approached, and the drugged but still wary half-elf regarded him with a questioning look.
Lydia
Leanna kept her eyes closed as Lucy kissed her amd then it was like she floated to a standing position. She opened her eyes and smiled into the face of Lucy and Tarias.

Lucy laced up Leanna's boots and thought about the gold she was going to make from the two troublemaker. Leanna held the half-elfs hand and the amber eyed girl stared into Tarias's face as she tried to focus on what was about to happen if the three of them disappeared into the back rooms.

Leanna stepped towards her new companion and was about to kiss him when the bright flash of armor caught her attention.

It was Lucy who invited the newcomer to the conversation. "Listen handsome. Im good, but im not three at a time good." She giggled and held Leanna's arm.
Maria
KC: Kaius ignored the working girls quips, stepping up and eyeing the couple she was courting. The first was nothing of note, a sailor, a dime a dozen in the port. Nothing he hadn't seen before but also not particularly heinous. 

The other patron, however, was something different entirely. Kaius didn't like to make eye contact with people, not that many ever met his gaze. But this time as Kaius gazed at the woman's face and their eyes briefly met, Kiaus felt it. That itch at the base of his skull. He scratched at it like an addict with an open sore. 

He locked eyes again with the woman, piecing everything he'd heard together with the hours he spent at the law office reading contracts.

Then it clicked 
"Leanna..." He muttered under his breath. "Submission to local magistrate, file 8734. By request of Reginald Port-Seville..." His voice trailed off as he remembered the rest of the letter.
Pamela
Quite under the effects of the opium-laced wine himself, Tarias did his best to size up the newcomer when he started reciting information about Leanna from wherever he had learned it. Somewhere in the back of his mind, reason screamed that this was some new form of trouble, but surely they were safe in the confines of the Lotus. 

Indeed, even as the half-elf glanced across the room to where the obese madman had roamed, entertaining his guests, it seemed that he was keeping an eye on developments too, which emboldened Tarias to some extent. "Leave off man, we're busy..."
Lydia
Reginald Port-Seville. 

Leanna felt sick. She knew her father would come looking for her, but standing face to face with this armor clad stranger turned her stomach. Or maybe that was the wine. 

And then she felt it. The tingling. The racing of her heart. The pulsing in her fingers. 

Lucy heard the name and glanced over to Mad Manny. This was no disgruntled sailor or low level noble. Reginald Port-Seville was a force to be reckoned with and if this woman was on his list, the lithe waitress wanted nothing to do with that trouble. 

"Stranger," Leanna spoke softly. "You're confused. I don't know who you are looking for." 

Leanna snapped her fingers and tried to qwell the magic pulsing in her blood. She stepped closer to Tarias as she felt Lucy slip away. She couldnt expect him to defend her again. Didn't want anymore trouble, but even the mention of his name put a shake in her voice and a boiled her skin. Fire. It she lost control here she could never return to Tidehaven.

"Please." She tried to smile, "We're tired from a long trip at sea. We're just trying to relax."

Mad Manny smashed a mug down and growled, "You lot best mind me rules! No violence in the Lotus!"
Richard
There it was again, that pain. This time stronger, building in intensity and... Heat? The throbbing in Kaius's skull seemed to change from a pervasive itch to a burning sensation. Kaius inhaled sharply, stiffening his neck and his eyes briefly rolling into the back of his head. Something was different about this time.

" Fugitive is to be returned alive." Kaius continued, trying to shake off the pain. "Condition of the Fugitive is negotiable and subject to a lessor reward if the means of apprehension are deemed unnecessary."

 Kaius stepped to the side of the sailor, allowing a clear exit between him and the door. Emboldened by his armor, Kaius wanted them to run. Kaius wished they would run. The stench of this dungheap had been all he could bear, waiting for a good mark to walk in for weeks. 

"By order of The Magistrate, file 8734 is granted under full jurisdiction of the Tidehaven municipality of Ostia." Kaius glanced over at Mad Manny, hoping his choice of words were enough to keep him from wanting a thorough investigation of his business dealings by the Magistrate.