"Would be a shame if something happened to Mr. Alban....but I can't be bothered to care", Mancini said as he yawned to emphasize his point.

"Now, what can you tell me about the schedule of the betting dens over in the Wastrel's Hope? What kind of security do they use,  just out of curiosity?"

In reply to Mancini (msg # 871):

"JeanPaul holds the common wagers, those of the table and dart games themselves, but I usually gots a couple guys who go round to hold the bsd when deres betting on the game itself. Da real money is in dese kindsma side bets, and dat is where Alban is hoiting me."

In reply to Lepkur (msg # 872):

the Wastrel's hope is a tavern in redlight, just past the collapsed street area that has been partly turned i to a druid grove...

In reply to Narrator (msg # 873):

"Oh, how nice! A druids grove!"

In reply to Aoife (msg # 874):

"Supposed ta have been a gate to hell that sunk the block. I gots 3:1 odds them trees gonna fall, 4:1 that sometin weird gonna go down cause of where dey at."

In reply to Lepkur (msg # 875):

"Sounds like something we need to check out..."

"Gate to hell is kind of our department, but let's deal with one thing at a time -- if the druids' grove seems healthy, I'm guessing the gate isn't active at the moment."

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 877):

  Oly might have something to say about that event.

I dink idz clozed gud fer now.

He shows the team the phamphlets away from the Printers boy.

In reply to Oly (msg # 879):

"So, Felix, tell me how these work? Do you hand them to women, and they are compelled to perform as shown, or are you just advertising?"

She is amused at the thought of him just trying to hand one to their large multi-armed female friend...

Mancini closely examines the pamphlets to see if he can discover anything.

Ooc:
20:26, Today: Mancini rolled 12 using 3d6.  Propoganda 13.

20:25, Today: Mancini rolled 15 using 3d6.  Psychology 13.

20:25, Today: Mancini rolled 9 using 3d6.  Observation 14

Rolls for Observation and Propoganda passes; Psychology failed.

OOC:  Just a reminder, Benny and Felix are in the bar in the Guild (waiting to be told Oly returned), Mancini and the rest are in/around the offices Lepkur, down near the Arena in the Undercroft.

In reply to Benny Morales (msg # 882):

yes Oky would be with the team in the common room

OOC:  So has everyone relocated to the common room then?

In reply to Benny Morales (msg # 884):

Aoife would have followed the others, mindful that some folk need to stay to watch Felix...she would stay with him if there were less than 2 watching him.

In reply to Aoife (msg # 885):

everyone is now in the common room.
the porn, some of it featuring Marie (the hair is blue) looks to have been for personal use, or sold to private clientele rather than distributed for propoganda.

the hymnal, on the other hand, looks legit if you read accross, but reading down...
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 886):

Is the porn magical in nature?

"Who is saho"

"I think it's slang for a courtesan.  And not one of the better ones."

"Hah, now that's amusing!" He claps Felix on the back in a jovial manner, then turns to the group, "Mancini, you have what is needed, yes?  This fellow should be fine to be set free and stop being detained then?"

In reply to Aoife (msg # 887):

no the porn is just lurid woodcut prints made by him and his friends. the one with Marie looks a bit worn, as if many coppies have been printed with the block...

In reply to Narrator (msg # 890):

Neither knowing nor caring about Marie (or her double), Aoife just ignores the prints as something dirty little individuals do who lack the capacity to be a real man and attract a real woman.

In reply to Aoife (msg # 891):

the axious apprentice seems confused as to where you got his things.


Are we good to go?

In reply to Felix the Printer's devil (msg # 892):

Aoife is good to go, but unsure what to do with out pornstar here...

"So, it seems as though this one gave up any kind of good afterlife, and potentially damaged many other lives, to learn better ways to see others as less -- and to hold onto his adolescence.  Or perhaps the woodcuts and hidden words were mainly for his own enjoyment.

"He won't be borrowing any more books from Johan Faust, at any rate."

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 894):

"Then let us pursue this one we know to have made an infernal pact."