<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Thank you. <img alt=":D" src="./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif" title="Very Happy"/>  I enjoyed writing it.<br/><br/>*has 2000 DM points now, including the points from the haikus*  :3</div></div></div><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">&lt;&lt;Upstairs&gt;&gt;</span></span><br/>Lin Longtail abruptly finds herself awake (her big warm pillow just stood up and padded away...)<br/><br/>She<span style="font-style: italic">could</span>move back to her own bed, but the prospect of returning to fitful nightmares isn't very inviting. Instead she rises, tidies herself up a bit, and walks quietly into the suite's central room. She arrives in time to see others departing.<br/><br/>"...be safe! I'll pray for you!" she calls out to them. Lin isn't certain where they are going or why, but it just feels like the right thing to say. Even with druidic boon and two angels walking beside them, out there the heroes will still need all the prayer they can get.<br/><br/>Once they've left, the squirrel timidly catches the attention of the elven tailor to ask for help with her decrepit clothing.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"Prrpreetreetreet"</span>sings Nocke. Even without an enchanted ear Chrrou can understand the eagerness in his song.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Soma, Jess and Yuki follow Rihyan out of the suite.<br/><br/>Yuki pauses by the door.<br/>"Err...the key..." she pats the breast pocket of her cloak. "The rabbit girl still has it, wherever she is..."<br/><br/>"We can close the door without it," explains Soma, "but we will not be able to get it open again without that key."<br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">&lt;&lt;Downstairs&gt;&gt;</span></span><br/>The main hall has filled a bit since Sashi passed through. More tables are now occupied; the bar is more active, and more imps are in flight to keep the extra glasses full. But it is still a far cry from the loud, drunken crush of the previous night.<br/><br/>Chrrou can walk with relative ease while enduring only a couple dangerous glances (far fewer than the number he would get were he not standing between two Large allies and an eye-catching angel).<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>The eryines bores into Auralia with hir empty gray eyes.<br/>No expression--not hatred, not concern, not even intrigue--crosses her pale brow. One might think shi were merely staring vacantly into space, if hir head were not panning slowly to follow the angel's movement.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline">(an overheard conversation)</span><br/>"Lughur!" snaps a sharp female voice. "Look at you!"<br/>The voice belongs to a tall woman clad in a dark cloak and studded leather armor, with an unruly shock of silver hair that only partially covers a hideous scar over the left side of her face. An ornate sapphire-embedded rapier hangs prominently at her side.<br/><br/>The bloated gatorfolk stirs. "Annghhh..." He tries to sit up, but the weight of the ten-gold-ingots-worth of harem girls still rumbling in his gut makes him flop back down onto his back.<br/><br/>"Did you <span style="font-style: italic">eat</span> your <span style="font-style: italic">entire gods-damn bounty</span> in one sitting!?" says the woman. She stands at the gator's side, arms akimbo.<br/><br/>"...no..." Lughur mumbles. He tries to sit up again, this time succeeding with great groaning effort.<br/>"I spent some of it on good wine too." he says with a toothy smile. "Gotta wash it down, y'know."<br/><br/>"Well, at least you're here. <span style="font-style: italic">Get</span> your scaly arse <span style="font-style: italic">up</span>." the woman snaps. "We're late enough as it is. I don't even <span style="font-style: italic">know</span> where Balcam ran off to."</div></div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Sitting at one end of the bar is a bright-eyed neko handsomely outfitted in fine attire. From the look of him, he's probably an aristocrat or sorcerer or some such--the kind of guy with a foot in every door, who makes things happen at a nod.<br/><span style="font-size: 80%; line-height: 116%;">[his comeliness bonus is nearly double-digit]</span><br/>He notices Auralia, Mindy, Soma, Alyssa and Jess  descending the stairs, and smiles nonchalantly.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Alyssa wrote:</cite>"Pardon me," she addresses the devil girl. "If a green-haired lapine woman come here, will you please inform her that her friends have gone to the marketplace and will meet her at...the Arena's main entrace?"</div></blockquote><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"No."</span>answers the Eryines simply, hir blank gaze never straying from Auralia.<br/><br/><br/>"M'lady, should I chance upon this friend of yours I would be<span style="font-style: italic">happy</span>to relay your message." says the neko with a nod, his friendly hazel eyes meeting Alyssa's for perhaps a moment longer than necessary.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>(when anyone approaches the front door): There is a very strong odor of rotting eggs outside.<br/><br/><br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Edit:  v v v v v v Irthos made Orev Valley post #2,500  <img alt=":)" src="./images/smilies/smile.gif" title="Smile"/>  v v v v v v</div></div></div>