the Black Inn

Fred's plated boots crunched across the gravel and the sound seemed to echo in the absence of any other noise. There were puddles here and there and long shadows from the Nelon cast themselves upon the black wood of the Inn's outer skin. Even as his feet thudded against the porch the main door was flung open and a short burly man with a large mustache waddled out. "Hush!" he whispered. "Be very, very quiet. We've had some complaints of late about-" The small fat man stopped in mid-sentence as he realized that there was a trim, athletic and full-breasted redhead standing in front of him wearing nothing but the flesh the gods gave her at birth. "What the?!!?"

"Stupid man," said Thessamar. "Haven't you ever seen a woman before?"

The man kept on blathering, nary an intelligible syllable leaving his lips, his eyeballs pasted to the maiden.

"Here, here, barkeep!" growled Fred. "This woman be ensorcled by a deadly spell. We have no time for your tomfoolery. We need a room, nay, two rooms, quickly. Oggling is not for the virtuous."

The man seemed to regain some amount of intelligence, and upon hearing a Saying of Mavery, he realized that there was a Knight of the Order standing in front of him as well. "Sorry, m'lord, excuse me...it was just.... yon maiden has no... no trouble intended..." and with more mumblings he lowered his eyes and led them inside.

The main bar was packed with patrons and seated around tables were many men and some women, eating and drinking. Strangely, though, they were keeping utterly quiet. With the arrival of the trio and especially of the nude Thessamar the crowd predictably made some noise. They were confused and excited, they were amazed and filled with some strange fear. One question that passed between many in a hushed whisper was what a Knight was doing with a whore (for indeed that is what the locals thought of the nude woman). The innkeeper quickly led them up to the second floor and gave them keys to two adjacent rooms. He told them to be as quiet as possible and then left.

1. Entering the first room, Fred and Thessamar discuss the problem of continuing within the Great Kingdom with Thessamar under her peculiar spell.
2. Thessamar tells Fred she does not wish each and every patron to view her the way they had, and tells Fred she wishes him to get her a hot bath. "We only have cold wash barrels here," he answered.
3. Velus smells something odd drifting down from the third floor. He leaves his two companions and decides to investigate.

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