The best butlers, pages and servant girls were always very slightly psychic, owing to centuries of natural selection weeding out ones that weren't in dragon attacks, castles being devoured by magical anomalies, and hungry mimics and plant-monsters. They always had the ability to be where you needed them. Unfortunately, by the same natural selection pressures, this was never,<em>ever</em>directly useful in the dirty business of adventuring, as all pages directly useful in fighting dragons had been steadily depopulated via being eaten by dragons. But it did mean that Maria's servant girl, a mousey red-haired woman with freckles, showed up bowed down by the lady knight's armor, ducking inside the 'CLOSED' shop as though the sign weren't even there.<br/><br/>"I believe Milady expressed a desire for this?" she offered the equipment.<br/><br/>Doused in cake and now set on fire, the bandit lieutenant's will was clearly at its breaking point. "How dare! Not the hair! I shall go bald before my time, what sadness in my prime..."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Okay SO, this is sort of in the vein of a skill challenge? You have accumulated 2 successes and no failures, but need to use a different skill (or another strategy, or the same skill from someone else) in order to finish. I really ought to have explained that right away!</div></div><br/>Lauriel, meanwhile, sneaked in all by herself, past webs and dishes and possibly more grotesque things tied up in webs. She was so focused on spotting heat signatures with her elven vision that she missed gossamer spiderwebs that coiled around her as she brushed past them, strengthening and lengthening to coil around her!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">A DC 12 Dexterity save will allow Lauriel to avoid the web! Otherwise she will be Restrained, and may run into trouble.</div></div>