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Matthias watches the newcomer move to the quest board. "About that long," he remarks to Bruhalv. Wondering what the new hero saw on the quest board, he decides to take a look and moseys on over. "'The Grey Foxer'? Who calls themself that?" the gnome laughs a little. "And what's a 'Munchkin'? And are we signing up in groups now?" Looking around, he wonders what and is interrupted by a mage. "I'm up for anything." he says, and walks back to the bar.

Well, since at least one of the votes against Representative Hatley is yours, should we all be asking you to defend it? In any case, I'm very interested that Representative Palacios hasn't voted yet, but then again neither have Representatives Teichman, Rutherford, or Hatley....

Alright, Bjorn, I poked you and you didn't explode. Unvote: Bjorn Borchard (badboytje88) Vote: Gerald Hatley (Goliath) Don't think you're off the hook for my vote, Representative Palacios; there are 22 hours left but Representative Hatley has been a little too loud lately.

I'm fairly sure that our esteemed speaker answered that question hours before you asked it... in the interest of making things interesting, I think I'll poke uou you* Vote: Bjorn Borchard (badboytje88)

Matthias twiddles his thumbs.

I want to hear from Gerald Hatley (Goliath) and Jacob Palacios (JackJonespaw) - both of them refused to work towards a lynch in the late hours of Day One.

See this thread.

My Christmas haul: 79008-1 Pirate Ship Ambush 70146-1 Flying Phoenix Fire Temple 70808-1 Super Cycle Chase 70707-1 CLS-89 Eradicator Mech 70702-1 Warp Stinger 31025-1 Mountain Hut Not a great picture, but great fun!

Merry Christmas everyone!

What's that supposed to mean? Matthias hasn't even had a chance!

Matthias doesn't even look, he just shudders slightly. "Never met him, but I've never met half the Heroes here. Can't imagine why he'd let such filth into his beard, though."

So it's Carol (6 votes) or Tremain (5 votes) right now? Gotta have a lynch, so... Unvote: Jacob Palacios (JackJonespaw) Vote: Carol Nottingham (Calanon) If I need to change to Tremain to get a lynch I will do so. I don't care one way or the other. Still haven't seen any response to my poke though....

Vote: JackJonespaw (Jacob Palacios)

Matthias completely misses Bruhalv's off-color joke; he's mesmerized and appalled that a gnome would allow their beard to contact the filth of the bar. He tears his focus away from the alcohol soaking deep into the brushed white fibers, staining soiling and staining to the root of each hair, sopping bar stench into the filaments one by one... he tears his focus away, forces the bile back down his throat, and looks at Bruhalv again. "Oh... between quests? I hadn't really gotten that far," he says distantly, and hands the vampire a sorely out of date copy of Hand Cannoner magazine before walking somewhat dazedly to the quest board. Without really looking at the pitch, Math signs his name for the Fields and makes his way back to the seat near Bruhalv, studiously avoiding even a glance in Gjinko's direction.

Vote: Fred Daniel Yam (William Harkenshire) Oh, whoops! That might be why Matthias is now a Druid, figured the LFG would get answered quickly if it said "free rezz and healz"....

It's not that I felt any worse about Siegfried than I do about anyone else; it's that somehow he had support when no one else did, even if it was only a tiny bit. (As I said earlier,) I only voted for Carol because she was closest to beating Siegfried. I don't trust either one of them. As far as voting, our new Speaker has just thrown his weight into voting Carol out, pushing her into the "lead"... maybe I'm just a jumpy freshman legislator, but it sure feels like he has a lot of pull around here. I'm interested to see who else will vote that way just because he did.

UoP DoH +1 for both... the droid arms look like windmills and remind me of Don Quixote!

"I couldn't possibly comment on Lady Alexis' manners," Matthias begins, "but Lady Nerwen is surely among the fairest of the elves...." Blushing the tiniest bit, he looks around and to his relief the minstrel is no longer in the Hall. "She was a Paladin of Ennoc, but recently I believe she's traded her sword and shield for the flute. Between you and me, though, she's as cold as ice, like any other elf."

Vote: Calanon (Carol Nottingham) I almost voted for Archie Matthews because he got picked "randomly," but it seems suspect without proof of randomness... Carol has just as good a chance of catching Siegfried at this point, and I just don't have a good feeling about him. And now I see I've done it wrong, freshman mistake, here we go again. Speaker: Calanon (Carol Nottingham)

Care to explain that vote, Molly Callaghan?

Yeah, it might be a little early to start calling people out, but I have to admit, Dixon, Rutherford, and Nottingham voted for themselves pretty quickly there. I'll do the "how do we know you're loyal" dance for all three of you right now. And ooooh, look, green text makes me sound more loyal. I'm not impressed.

"I'm not entirely sure how quests work, honestly," the gnome laments. "I've been out twice now, once for almost a year in Baltarok and again for only a week here in Eubric. The first time, I thought we were guarding a traveling circus, but it turned out we were kidnap-rescuing an Orcish king to stop a war... the second time, we were meant to protect a man for a week but he was kidnapped within hours and we spent a week tracking him, only to have him die anyway after he turned out to be a power-hungry necromancer." Matthias sighs, shakes his head, and motions to the barmistress for another something strong. "All of that to say I have no idea what this Heroing is all about. But I don't think your ...is it vampirism? Vampiracy? Vampiritude? whatever, I don't think it is a big deal. I'm borrowing this armor from another vampire right now, a friend from my time in Baltarok, and I don't think he's ever had much trouble." A thoughtful look makes its way onto Matthias' face... he'd spent time with many heroes in the last year, looking for friendship, but perhaps he had found many friends without realizing it.

Matthias listens with interest as the man describes the effects of his condition, and is horrified to see him ruin good cider. He downs his own glass and wonders if Monk Pretzel is right about the Town Watch not wanting to enter Heroica Hall. Subconsciously he looks around the room for Berthadhiell, and he wonders what those Watchmen might say about his own ...acquaintance with the notorious 'XX'. "Like I said, cider and firepower around here, Master Boris. What would the Town Watch want to search here for, anyway? You hiding something?"

No wonder nothing ever gets done around here! You establishment types are nothing but boozing womanizers, living off the public dime!