<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;">{{Spoiler tags for OOC are cool. Nice find. :3}}<br/>{{I don't prefer a slow game over a quick one. It would be fantastic if all of us posted once a day. One week is meant to be the worst case, the maximum tolerated wait time before you are skipped. I encourage players to post more frequently if/when they are able.}}<br/>{{I don't think that <span style="font-style: italic">enforcing</span> a faster pace in this campaign would be plausible without sacrificing quality, harassing players and/or playing PCs as NPCs--all of which are contrary to my style. I'd rather have a high-quality snail of a PbP game than a rush-job. Even if it means we'll have gray hair before we reach epic levels. x3}}</div></div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: green"><span style="text-decoration: underline">[Experience]</span><br/>Chrrou: 56,437 xp +1,500 (combat) +500 (rescued Geno) = 58,437 xp<br/>Geno: 59,437 xp +4,500 (combat) +500 ("how are you still alive?" bonus) = 64,437 xp<br/>Kahmori: 47,000 xp +1,500 (combat) +500 (rescued Geno) = 49,000 xp<br/>Mindy: 45,250 xp +1,500 (combat) +500 (rescued Geno) = 47,000 xp<br/>Rihyan: 52,400 xp +1,500 (combat) +500 (rescued Geno) = 54,400 xp<br/>Sashi: 62,087 xp +1,500 (combat) +500 (rescued Geno) = 64,087 xp<br/></span><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Allie wrote:</cite>"The water's wonderful! Won't you come and join me? And tell me what Miss Aur- Ah, I mean, the angel's figured out."</div></blockquote><br/><span style="font-size: 80%; line-height: 116%;">[Jess Sense Motive: 1d20(14) -2 (wisdom) -4 (drunk) = 8, pass]</span><br/>Jess's ears prick up at the word 'Miss'. Soma never uses proper titles without sarcasm.<br/>". . ." the huskygal pauses at the edge of the basin.<span style="font-style: italic">"That's not Soma...it's that girl..."</span><br/><br/>This new fact swirls around Jess's brain, spurring numerous thoughts. In the mean-time, she takes the girl's invitation to join her.<span style="font-size: 80%; line-height: 116%;">{{it's not a bath<span style="text-decoration: underline">tub</span>; it's a large pool like hot springs or a jacuzzi}}</span><br/>After testing the temperature with her feet,--<span style="font-style: italic">"She sure runs a bath like Soma...any hotter and you could cook a lobster in here..."</span>--she gradually submerges herself up to the collarbone.<br/><span style="font-size: 80%; line-height: 116%;">[Jess's tiefling nutrion protects her from heat damage]</span><br/>She closes her eyes and deflates with a long sigh. "Aahhh...yeaahhh...'snice."<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>"So..." says the huskygal casually after a few silent moments of enjoying the water. " 'Elise', was it?"<br/>She opens her eyes halfway to slyly examine the unfamiliar tiefling. The clean, slippery...rather-naked tiefling with no weapons or allies in sight...(there goes that imagination again, wandering with a single-track mind of its own...).<br/>Even through the wafting steam, Alyssa recognizes a look of barely-concealed hunger when she sees it.<br/><br/>"You're part demon." observes Jess. The relaxing warmth combines with the alcohol in her system to slur her words. "I knew there'as something about you, hun...could smell it."<br/><br/>"The angel was...well, y'know how they are. All, like, uptight." she laughs and flashes another fangy smile. "Can't even take a joke! Thought I was gonna try an' eat her. Would'ya believe it?<span style="font-style: italic">Me?</span>"