Café de Nuit

'What treatchery is this?" Ambrose shrieks at the circle around Van Rijn. His tiny face is a deep red fury, "Who let you... thugs in here!"

“For this, and this alone, is my advancement denied. Therefore, I throw down this gauntlet to the Umbral Fathers, the Lords of the Fraternity...”

"It would appear that the gauntlet is not all that he threw down."
Ambrose motions towards the cadre surrounding Van Rijn with his one good hand, "Now ...

"Heh, heh, very funny, Hazan. But of course you know that my key to the wine cellar mysteriously vanished a month ago. Just like it did the month before."

"Perhaps you should check your coat pocket, then?" Responds Viktor.

The bald gnome responds with a cold sneer and a raised eyebrow. With his ...

He waves a servant to come see to Conrad's well-being with a drinks tray.
A servant speedily appraoches with a gobblet of wine balanced on a tray.
"I'll take that,"
As the server passes by the stairs, a small gloved hand plucks the cup from the plate. In a single gulp, the swift-fingered gnome ...

(encrypted FoS internal note)



From: Ambrose Skully, FoS elder
To: All Ste Ronges FoS members

Still no news of the topic for Van Rijn’s conference. It seems he didn’t say a thing to anyone about it. This lack of common courtesy is common amongst humans, though I had hoped members of our ...