Café de Nuit

ewancummins wrote:(If the others go with Alfonse) The party moves north, away from the waterfront, looking for pirate stragglers in the streets.

Gem catches a scent, sniffing at the air and whining. The dog noses toward a particular section of buildings north beyond a row of warehouses.

Tom and the others see smoke pouring from the doors and windows of a two story stucco shop and loft, set a little distance apart from the nearest buildings on either side. The sign above the doorway shows three golden balls, but they have to squint to make it out through the rising cloud of soot and fumes. They can't make out the lettering.

When the breeze shifts and blows the smog toward them, they catch a whiff of hot oil along with the odor of burning wood and plaster.

Shutters on an upper window facing the south side of the street fly open. A figure appears in the smoky rectangle-- a woman with a sagging cloth draped over her head and shoulders. She thrusts a squirming thing out over the window ledge.

"Oh no!" Damien points at the kicking, screaming toddler.

The woman sways. She does not scream, but when she opens her mouth, a ragged cough comes out that almost sounds like words.

At that moment, a side door swings open into the alley on the right. Four men with clubs and daggers emerge from the building, coughing. One man's club is a guttering torch. They are all dressed as sailors, and carry sacks on their back, out of which loot spills into the street as they hurry off...

alhoon wrote:Fild doesn't seem very happy that Aldron may escape. Yet, he tells Alfonse: "I would say that we better wait before hitting Aldron. Let him deliver Richard sound and safe and then we blatantly violate the truce, probably with the blessing of the other two families. Break our word, ignore the deal, flip on our position. His kind of thing. Aldron will understand. "

VAN wrote:Tom listens carefully at the others and says:

"Aldron wants the amnesty , I believe he will keep his end of the bargain. He has time to make another devious plan later. He isn't a fool also, he will expect a payback from us, Savelle or Hoblins later. That's why we need to do it now. If he is negotiating he will not expect an attack. We need to make sure Hoblins will be on our side and help us if we get caught. The attack for what I understand will not be authorized by the Watch, we will be by ourselves once again. So we need allies if something happens."