Indeed, the seafood seems to command a lot of respect from the other companions around the table who have been eating it, and each course vanishes almost as quickly as it's brought. And hardly anyone even so much as gets punched during their entire meal; one person seemed to be about to, but was quickly Escorted Off The Premises and did not return. Possibly they had gone back to their room. Possibly they had gone to someone else's room, inside someone else. Impossible to really know. Their companions had spent their shares of the money freely; Garth had ordered quite a fine, well-made falchion for himself, while Aron had invested in some inky-black head to toe armor, Mona a fetching jeweled headband that made her appear even more radiantly beautiful, and Chira... well, Chira had picked up this and that, including placing an order for some intimidatingly heavy half-barding and half-armor plate. It would take a few days to be fashioned, but with it on she would be a terror on the battlefield even more than she had been on the ship- enough to make one wonder what she might have been like among her own people, equipped as she wanted, leading an entire tribe of centaur warriors...<br/><br/>"I think they're going to be a few days," Chira volunteered, "Before they're ready to head out. It would let us get almost everything we ordered at the shops." She had turned her nose up at the idea of becoming common robbers, though the bounty hunting idea had drawn a cautious nod. "And eventually, I would like to go home, and get back to fighting the Empire on its own terms, but-" the centaur ducks her head. "As you say, we should be more... secure before we do that."<br/><br/>"Not for me, really," Aron casually says. "They can have the mainland. I only intend to go back there if I'm being paid enough to justify the risk- some of us aren't freedom fighters, dear Chira!"<br/><br/>((Quick little excuse for me to post the level-ups and gear for the NPCsm<a class="postlink" href="https://pastebin.com/ABUgeQfs">https://pastebin.com/ABUgeQfs</a>mand keep a little banter going while Cassy works on her own game~ First post updated.))