Her eyes widen at the coin, and she flashes Oleg a nervous smile. "Oh, no, nothing like that," she says, with forced casualness. Her back to the other patrons, she mouths be careful. She gives a tiny wave of a finger to indicate the four cloaked figures, then subtly points to the corner of her eye as she pushes her hair back - they're watching.
"Oh, I see."Well... they look like a cheerless lot. What to do, what to do..."Ma'am, a round on me for the gentlemen in the corner."
"We could tell from inside pretty easily," I point out. "We could also help. Which would be good. Let's do that."I ride Fluffy over to where Oleg left his horse, and dismount.[I'll wait and see if somebody's going to get the door for me, I think.]
[Presumably we came from the left? I think Astra, Pepper, and Val would be farther over, off the map, if we were waiting to see what Olegov found and maybe set an ambush. Can we assume the same pattern continues off to the sides, with empty space where the buildings are?]
[So, purely out of curiosity...is the window in the Western wall large enough for a dwarf to jump through?]
[Martin, I can keep one marked consistently, and a second inconsistently; you? Any preferences in how we divide them up?]
"Subdue the dwarf," the granite-faced man, clearly the leader, orders the two soldierly types, as he strides outside. He pauses to size up Mari, then raises a hand, palm in her direction. "Unclean spirit, I compel you," he intones forcefully. Mari experiences a disorienting tunnel vision, with this man becoming her point of focus. [If Mari attacks anyone other than A, she'll have -2 to her attack roll and take 6 radiant damage. Also, Mari is marked.]
"Fuck's sake, that fucking ghost is gonna get us all killed," I mutter, tying up my lizard and then unslinging my shield from my back before creeping forward and peering around the corner of the building to try and figure out what's going on.[Minor: Tether lizard to treeWhatever: move shield to armMove: to A8]