“Quite well, and you? I hope you are finding the accommodations agreeable.”
“I am. I have found myself in an unusual traveling situation. The quality of your accommodations has been a very welcome bit of respite in these times.”
With this sentence, Paprika smiles warmly.
“Has business been treating you well recently?”
She smiles politely at you. “It has, yes. It’s been quite brisk this month.”
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(didnt need it)
Drakor nodded to himself, then turned his attention to the ongoing conversation between Rika and Amelie.
(am I close enough to eavesdrop?)
You are easily able to identify the spell as belonging to the Transmutation school. In fact, your grasp of the magical structure of the spell is so strong that you can even identify the specific spell — Gaseous Form, which temporarily transforms the target into an insubstantial, misty substance, limiting what they can do but making it much more difficult to harm them.
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(I would say so, yes)
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(Notably, although the building is boarded up, there are enough cracks that you would normally expect someone in Gaseous Form to be able to pass through it. It doesn’t allow the target to pass through a completely solid surface, but the building is not airtight.)
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Arius relays the information he gathered to Wanderer.
((@Geyde, I just checked, and apparently Gaseous Form is a lv3 spell. I don’t think we will be able to win a 2v2 combat, considering your character is a non-combatant.))
((Do you think diplomacy is possibly on the table?))
(Can Rika Sense Motive to figure out whether Amelie is tolerant of this conversation/what she’d want to talk about? If so nya)
@discobot roll 1d20
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(Your impression is that she’s tolerant of it, but finds it fairly uninteresting, and is somewhat worried that it might escalate to you complaining about her adjusting her prices in response to the influx of new arrivals. She’d probably be more interested in hearing about your ~business — she knows how her own business is going, she doesn’t know about other people’s. She may also have political interests, but if so it’s much harder to get a sense of them, and that’s obviously a much riskier topic.)
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“I must apologize for my companions. I have been keeping the company of some odd people under the orders of nobility.” Paprika smiled wryly. “At this rate, I’m afraid I’ll create more strange gossip — there’s more than enough of that around these days.”
She leans in, tilting her head slightly in curiosity. “Is that so?”
(your impression is that she would definitely like to hear about the strange gossip)
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“mmm…let’s get out of here and revisit tomorrow. We’ll see if the group still has space in the inn.”
Wanderer agrees with Arius’s apparent skepticism regarding their chances. He clearly wants to do something about this. But self-preservation is a hell of a thing.
(can we just leave?)
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“In the worst case scenario, I could always sleep outside the village.” Arius then mentions his possession of a small tent.
((Yes. Pray that we can are allowed to leave.))
Paprika leans in and speaks quietly.
“Two of my stranger… well, companions, I suppose, are presently investigating the abandoned hospital on the outskirts of town, for one.” Paprika flinched a little as she spoke. “I hope they don’t bring down a plague. And it seems everybody’s bragging that they’ve had a noble visit lately: the jeweler, the bookseller… it’s a bit unusual for their types, isn’t it? I don’t mean to criticize, but that jeweler didn’t even seem to know the worth of the amethyst he sold me.”
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