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down and the Sour Nest is on the northeastern side
of the city, just outside of it, so you have to
scoot and ricochet off.
SAM: So we’d have to go through the town just to
get there?
MATT: No, you could go straight to it through the
forest, but it depends on what you want to do. If
you’re going straight there or if you’re wanting
to skim through Shadycreek, it’s your choice.
MARISHA: How long after dusk has it been?
MATT: The sun set. With that roll you made, you’ll
be arriving at Shadycreek Run at about 10:00pm.
LIAM: We are going to find somebody, spur of the
moment, tell them to come with us out to the
woods? To do a bit of dark business?
MARISHA: Are you being facetious? I can’t tell.
LIAM: No, I don’t know if that’s a good idea, I
don’t like our options at the moment, any of them
really. I feel like we don’t have– we are one
more person than when we got our asses handed to
us on the road, and we thought we had the upper
hand then. Now we have one more, that is better,
but if we go to the town and we find a couple of
ne'er-do-wells who’ll work for coin, we are
convincing them to come with us right away, into
the woods. Into the woods.
SAM: Into the woods and out of the woods?
TALIESIN: That would be the hope, I imagine, you’d
leave the woods once you went into the woods. I
mean, you don’t just want to sit there. I mean,
that’s what I do, but I’m not sure that was really
a great decision, so, yeah, huh.
SAM: Are you talking to us?
TALIESIN: I’m just thinking out loud. I’ve had a
few years to just think out loud.
SAM: How old are you?
MARISHA: How many seasons old are you?
TALIESIN: Been about 100, give or take.
SAM: But there’s four seasons? Or is it three
seasons up here? I don’t know.
MARISHA: 25.
SAM: He’s between 25 and 100.
TALIESIN: That’ll do.
LIAM: What do you think?
MARISHA: I’m still afraid if we roll into
Shadycreek– once again, just pointing out what we
are: two firbolgs, a goblin, and then some kind of
acceptable-looking people and someone with a
reputation. Well, by society’s standards.
ASHLY: A lot of shade just got thrown.
MARISHA: Look, come on!
LIAM: If we do that, the three of us would do the
talking, naturally.
MARISHA: I’m just saying, we will draw attention
to ourselves, and then we might go around asking
people to kill the Iron Shepherds, and that might
draw more attention to ourselves in a town that it
feels the Iron Shepherds kind of run. Or at least
have a better foothold in it than we do.
ASHLY: How would this be different? That’s my
question. One more person, sure. A healer? Sure. But–