<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=58849.msg2691519#msg2691519">Quote from: NobleWolf on 31-01-2010, 15:05:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Concentrating on the alleyway, Lionel can detect the presence of evil. He can't help but feel eyes upon him as well.<br/><strong>"It's rude to follow people. Especially when they don't want to be followed."</strong>, the harsh voice replies. Lionel knows that voice, it belongs to the half-orc from the hall, he hadn't a doubt.<br/><strong>"Your want me to talk about Slips, right?"</strong>, he continues. A few soft metalic clanks can be heard ten to fifteen feet away.<br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Lionel considered his words carefully, knowing that he was at a signifigant disadvantage, especially if the Orc was a rogue.  Putting up a defense in the dark would more or less require a great deal of luck and a rapid retreat.  "That's right.  I'm wondering why Slips won't pay off his accounts at the Nest.  Did he lose his balls or something?"  Lionel asked, hoping to resolve the curiosity he'd developed about why a common halfling was willing to forsake the pleasures of a woman of easy virtue to save money, yet still would pay his way at a tavern.  Maybe the wretched scum didn't think he was going to be in town long enough to regret it.