<div class="floatright"><em><sub>click to enlarge</sub></em><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/uzZevqI.jpg?1)<br/>Kaladim - Dwarven Rogue<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/NSP8zS1.jpg?1)<br/>Halas - Barbarian Fighter<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/vn3ftSx.jpg?1)<br/>Qeynos - Human Ranger<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/qVLiTZo.jpg?1)<br/>Freeport - Tiefling Eromancer<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/rijwlsM.jpg?1)<br/>Freeport - Human Fighter</div><div align="center">(https://imgur.com/DPsxjn0.jpg)<br/>The Tavern</div><br/>Tialyn had no trouble finding the Inn as it was located right near the entrance to town and was quite obviously marked.  Entering the door she had the slight sensation of passing through a portal, like she had when she first entered this world from the lobby.  As she did several scripted NPCs, all scantily clad of course, looked up at her.  But immediately she was greeted with a mental pop up.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Do you wish to make Swamphome Inn your bind location?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>With a simple mental confirmation that popup dissappeared and was replaced with another one that she read and then dismissed right away.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">All Taverns and Inns share the same instance server.  By default you can see any players actual location in the game world, but they can only leave the Inn from whatever location they entered.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Striding into the Inn she couldn't help but be struck again how realistic everything was.  From the sound of the fireplace crackling, the flickering light of candles, the smell of spilled beer, to the slight tang of sweat that underlied the smell of cooking food.  Most of the characters in the tavern were obviously NPCs, but as Tialyn looked around she saw several that were obviously being controlled by players.  Part of the thing that made it obvious was as she looked at them, she could see a misty set of words over them for a moment or two that correlated to their location.  Two men and two women, each in pairs talking to each other.  They seemed not to notice right away that she'd entered.<br/><br/>The first couple consisted of a Dwarf who's garb made Tialyn think of a thief (https://i.imgur.com/uzZevqI.jpg?1) or a rogue.  He stood grinning and looking up at a tall barbarian woman (https://i.imgur.com/NSP8zS1.jpg?1) who towered over him and looked down at him with mild interest and also a bit of boredom.  Barbarians, in this game world, were a subset of humans with an average height of six and a half feet tall, and with the average dwarf around four and a half feet, it looked as if the dwarf were looking up into the barbarian's ample bosom, which he very well might have been.  Tialyn noted that the dwarf was in the tavern in Kaladim, and her mind supplied that was the dwarven home city, and also on another continent, too far away to party with.  The barbarian woman likewise was in her starter home town tavern in the snowy barbarian home of Halas, which was on the same continent as Tialyn, but almost as far away as one could get from her current location as possible.  Also no good for partnering with.<br/><br/>The other couple was a rather handsome and muscled man (https://i.imgur.com/vn3ftSx.jpg?1) that looked like a ranger of some sort if his longbow was any guide, but his inn was listed as Qeynos, which was closer than Halas, but still on the other side of the continent from Tialyn so likewise not likely to be close enough to partner with.  He was talking to a half naked teifling woman (https://i.imgur.com/qVLiTZo.jpg?1) whose outfit left her nether regions completely exposed.  Even from across the tavern it was obvious that the woman simply oozed sex.  Tialyn also noted that the teifling woman's current location said Freeport, which made her the closest of the four PCs in the tavern, on the northern side of the deserts of Ro, which were north of her current location in Swamphome.<br/><br/>The barkeeper NPC was polishing a beer and she knew that she could purchase a variety of food and drink there before heading out, and the far wall had a large board where one could post messages or request help.  Tialyn took a seat ordered some food, but before she could make a decision on what to do after that, a mist of swirling golden motes appeared in the center of the tavern.  That got the attention of the four PCs who turned and looked as the coalesced into a new player.  A brunette woman in sexualized iron armor (https://i.imgur.com/rijwlsM.jpg?1) materialized out of the glowing motes of light.  As they faded away she took a deep gasping breath and opened her eyes.<br/><br/><strong>"FUCK!"</strong>she yelled.  Slamming her sword into the scabbard at her belt, she looked around.  Tialyn noted that her location was also Freeport.<strong> "Fucking Orc patrol came upon me when I had almost beaten the chieftain.  Fucking shit...." </strong>Then a little quieter she sighed,<strong>"There go half my points."</strong>