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After leaving the guildhouse Glim felt the urge to have a night out on the town, and he knewn just the girl to show it to him. He headed left down the street towards the Gazing Basilisk, a fairly upscale bar where he knew a certain bard would be working tonight. He eventually came to the Basilisk, and even from outside he could hear the drunken rabble inside cheering and yelling. He pushed through the doorway to lay eyes on a beautiful human woman dancing in a red dress with a flame motif. She was dancing almost as fiery as her dress suggested, and in her dance as she was scanning the room he quickly caught her eye. A smile came to her face, and she immediately dance on over towards where Glim stood. Glim signed to her in Thieves Cant, asking if the room was sufficiently drunk yet. Outloud he said, "Hey baby, you wanna take a ride with Dr. Feelgood?". By using his code name he told her that he was here to work. She signed back that she just about had the crowd worked enough to make them an easy mark. "I dunno, you seem like you'd come up a little short", she said. "Hey, baby, it ain't the size that matters, it's the motion of the ocean". "Yeah, well the ocean's been frozen for several months, Dr. Feelgood", she retorted. Glim, acting humiliated, moved his way to a back table where several nobles were playing a game of cards. "Nancy can take care of the crowd a little longer", he thought to himself. |
Over a couple of games of poker Glim was able to identify and signal 7 other operatives within the bar. Everything was going to plan, and almost on cue there was a loud commotion outside. The bouncers, who were standing by the door, went out to investigate. "Perfect", Glim thought to himself. He nodded to Nancy, and then began shuffling the deck of cards in front of him. In one fluid motion he reached into his sleeve where he kept his flashpowder and flung the dust into the air, which went off in a large flash. Immediately everyone in the bar was temporarily blinded. Everyone, that is, except those who expected it.
Immediately the Knives lept into action. From a hidden sheath in his cloak Glim took his dagger and in a flash gutted the man sitting next to him. Nancy, who had taken a position behind the man sitting across from Glim, took a dagger from under her dress and proceded to slit his throat. All throughout the bar similiar scenes were playing out as at each table a Night Knive operative had thrown some flashpowder up and drawing crossbows, knives, and shortswords had proceded to kill all within reach. Tables were kicked over, men were strewn all about in pools of their own blood. One person tried to make a mad dash for the door, but as he tried to escape Glim grabbed a dagger he had stashed in his boot and flung it across the room. It hit the man square in the back of the neck, and he fell face first out the door. Looking around and seeing no one left alive, save for the Night Knives, he said to Nancy, "We better get out of here before any of their friends show up". "I'll give you this, Mr. Waywhocket, you sure know how to show a girl a good time", Nancy said.
Grinning, he took Nancy by the arm and leaning heavily on his cane he strutted out into the street. The remaining Night Knives fled in all directions, trying to hide down alleyways and in the shadows of backstreets. As he was scanning the shadows he saw to very large figures lying on the ground, red trickles of blood staining the snow around them. "A resounding success, my lady, if I do say so myself", Glim remarked, looking up at the moonlit sky. "The Righteous Man will be pleased, we were able to pull this off with no witnesses". The two of them walked for awhile, their destination, Yanters, a few minutes away. Behind them along the edge of the night's sky a strong light flickered like a candle. The Gazing Basilisk would be reduced to ash in a matter of hours, killing all who resided within. "I think I'm beginning to enjoy this, baby".
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