Unsavory Places
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 116230
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Gemma managed to fend off the old man's advances without too much maneuvering, always wearing a friendly smile. By the time he stumbled out the door, the area had gotten a little quieter. At this point the two men who'd also been at the bar since she arrived slid over. One said, "Hey there, pretty lady. What's your name?" "Gemma." "A pleasure, Gemma. I'm Merek and this is my associate Terrin." "Oh, the pleasure is all mine," she said, smiling warmly, even as her insides churned uneasily. The man smiled, but it wasn't a smile she'd call "friendly." He said then, "So tell me, Gemma, are you new in town?" "Yes," she said. "Just arrived today." "How interesting." He held up his small glass of mead which Gemma had just poured for him about a minute prior. "I've decided I'm not so thirsty. Won't you drink this?" Gemma reached forward and took up the glass, raising it unhesitatingly to her lips. After a few seconds Terrin said, "No, not so ladylike. Bottoms up." And so she downed it all in a couple of seconds, wincing as she did, because she had not had a drink since she'd become Lilith, and now found it far less agreeable than when she'd been Fred. Once she was finished, Merek said, "Most impressive!" And he gestured down underneath the counter. "What do you have immediately under there?" "Brandy," she said, cursing her magically-induced loose lips. "Take out a bottle and drink it." She did. After just a few seconds she had to stop, covering her mouth to keep from gagging, but Merek said, "Keep going until I say you can stop," and she immediately raised it back to her lips. She didn't see Garrod around, which was for the best. Brandy streamed out of either side of her mouth but she couldn't stop. She was about halfway through the bottle when Merek said, "All right, stop!" And she involuntarily spit out what was in her mouth as she put the bottle down, stumbling slightly. Merek said, "You'll have a terrible time of that in the morning... but it's still not quite enough. Why don't you get up on the counter and sing your favorite drinking song, as loud as you can?" Gemma was mortified, but she promptly found that she was pulling herself up onto the counter. As soon as she did most of the eyes in the establishment were on her, and they all were when she opened her mouth and began shouting to the lyrics to the drinking song she used to sing when having drinks with the other knights of Allaria. She wasn't even through with the first verse when Garrod appeared, eyes wide, and cried, "Gemma! What are you doing?" And before she knew it, Merek and Terrin were pulling her down and rushing her outside, telling her to stop singing. They didn't stop just outside either. They kept running till they found a dark alleyway a few minutes later. "I think that's proof enough!" Terrin was laughing. "You're cursed to obey," said Merek. "That's good. That's excellent. We have some instructions for you, and we'd better give them before the brandy sets in and you lose the ability to form any kind of memories." "Listen very carefully," said Terrin. "We want you to...
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