>>5921019“I can’t fuckin’ believe it,” Zith-Zi says, slamming her flagon down and wiping the foam from her upper lip, looking you up and down. “You landed BOTH of those broads? What kind of sword are you SWINGING down there, ya’ twinky little twerp?!”
“Zi!” you hiss. “Keep your voice down! And anyway, I’m taller than YOU.”
“Uh, doi,” Zith-Zi replies, jabbing you in the stomach. “I’m a goblin. A TALL goblin. You’re a fuckin’ half-elf.”
“A tall half-elf,” you protest.
“How many other half-elves ya’ know, Tips?”
You glare at her for a while, eventually dropping the subject. The answer, after all, if probably ‘one or two, in passing, vaguely, and I don’t know their names’.
“Well, I guess congratulations are on order, to your ‘engagement’, and ta’ nightly fuckin’ threesomes for my old roomie that late-but-great bloomer!” Zith-Zi says with a grin and a slap of her sharp-nailed hand on the table. “Next round’s on you!”
“We aren’t… We haven’t decided on…”
You stop mid-sputter, and narrow yoru eyes.
“On ME?”
“Well, yeah,” Zith-Zi says. “I’m not the one getting’ my gob slobbed by two chicks at once, am I? What, you want all that AND free booze? Come the fuck on, kid.”
“I’m older than you, too,” you grumble, but place a gold coin on the table. “Anyway, what about you and Afron?”
“I don’t wanna’ talk about it,” the little green woman mutters, demeanor immediately shifting.
(Ah. Rough patch, huh? Hm.)
“You didn’t call me out here ta’ brag about your sex-life, though, right?” Zith-Zi unsubtly segues. “What’s the deal? Yous aid something about a job?”
“Well, kind of,” you reply. “You see…”
You have the Belt of Binding. You have a whole suit of spells at your disposal. You have Veloz—though, sadly, not Muffins. But you know very little of the security measures of Hawksong’s Royal Palace, save that they are meant to prevent immaterial and invisible demons to have the run of the place—and the same may hold true for True fey, such as your <Improved Aetherial Form> resembles. You also don’t know if the Prince Consort has brought any sort of spies with him, or perhaps a whole monstrous REGIMENT, though they’d have to be in disguise and you’ve not heard tell of any foreign armies or mercenary bands in Hawksong right now.
What is your plan?
>You wish to sneakily scout the palace together, to get an understanding of what the Dragonborn Antipaladin is up to, and the confront him>You want to get close enough to get the Belt of Binding on him, and then negotiate from a place of power once any mind-affecting spells he might have on him (or the Queen) are broken>You want to approach the Palace directly, while Zith-Zi lays in wait to provide back-up—to attack or extract—as required>Write-in