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Elf Roll: Charm +1
Speak to Lescurel about the strange ear music
4+4+1=9 < 10 (partial success)
Saorlai listens sympathetically, saying very little, as Lescurel complains ceaselessly about the Strange Ear Music:
- ...they will do anything to get attention these days, the temptresses! The truth is - audiences do not like being challenged. True Art, like mine of course, requires situations of great peril and daring... the constant fear and arousal of DEATH! Why do you think the Circus involves acts of daring spectacle, as the Ringmaster creates an alternate world of peril: the breathtaking acts of the trapeze, the lion or tiger tamer subduing the beast, or knife throwing at a helpless spinning damsel? They are demonstrations of skill and ingenuity in the face of near death! This is what inspires true Art, for all Beauty comes from Pain. Now instead these audiences crave these safe feely erotic sedations, these ear tingles and cheap comforting ravishments, twinges of titillation upon a bearskin rug. O... (Lescurel gasps dramatically, raising a red russet sleeve to his brow...) it has finally, finally come to this... I must sell myself, destitute and penniless... to... to... to the Brothel...!
QM: No roll for the Barbarian to eat oranges; the Noble Savage bites into them whole without peeling the rind. Sadly this does not restore his health or dignity though. Still 7/12 hp.
Lescurel's mention of the Circus provokes interest in the peculiar Bird Mask Stranger, Cantergloak, who cocks and tilts his head - his birdlike head - at a quizzical angle.
- Yes, the Circus... I have been meaning to pay the Ringmaster there a visit. It has been long overdue. There is a shortcut I know through the mountains, it is not far. We could set off tomorrow morning, during daylight, but the Circus may have departed after their show by then. Best to leave immediately now, and climb the mountains by night. And one should always travel well-armed, you know, in case of being ambushed by those outlaws of the Blearie Queene, cut-throats or thieves. There are a lot of those around!
And Cantergloak seems to ruffle his bird mask head, cawing with laughter.